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Thompson Enamel Inc. | Welcome to Thompson Enamel
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Thompson Enamel has been a manufacturer of vitreous enamel for metal for over 110 years. The first part of this article is an excerpt from a talk Thomas E. Thompson gave some time after World War II. It gives a brief history of the company which was founded by his father, Thomas C. Thompson, in 1890.
Mr. William Marlow, the grandfather of the present Mr. Thomas E. Thompson, was originally from a suburb of Coventry, England. In Coventry, there was a watch and clock manufacturing company. At that time, many of the parts were made by the small shops around the countryside. Mr. Marlow made enamels and dials for clocks and watches that were assembled in the main plant.
About 1882, Mr. Marlow was urged by the Elgin National Watch Company, of Elgin, Illinois, to come to the United States to make enamels at their plant in Elgin. When he first came to this country, he contacted his son-in-law, Mr. Thomas C. Thompson, who was operating a drug store in Chicago. With their combined knowledge, they developed the manufacture of enamels in the United States, and then went to Elgin and made enamels there. In 1890, Mr. Thomas C. Thompson elected to go into business for himself and established a small plant in a suburb of Chicago, known as Ravenswood. After ten years of operating in Ravenswood, he moved to Wilmette. From 1900 to 1941, the business was operated in Wilmette, Illinois.
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