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Atlas Co.

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1896 Image-Atlas Engine Works,
Cycloidal Steam Engine

Atlas Co.

The Atlas Co. was founded in 1872 as a reorganization of the Indianapolis Car & Machine Works. It was reorganized twice more, once in 1874 as the Atlas Works, and again in 1878 as the Atlas Engine Works. It was a major manufacturer of stationary steam engines. The exact date that the company was founded is not known, but believed to be sometime in the early 1870's. Growth came swiftly for this new company, by 1878 they had nearly 600 employees working for them.

When the company began, they manufactured miscellaneous products, but in 1880, devoted their production "exclusively to the manufacture of steam engines and boilers of standard types and sizes." Beginning around 1897, they expanded their line into the gas engine business. By 1902, the company had grown to have approximately 1,500 employees.

While the company had grown swiftly during its first 30 years to become one of the largest makers of engines in the entire United States, things were about to change. For unknown reasons, Atlas went into receivership in 1907 and was never really able to recover. By 1912 the assets of the company, including all parts and patterns, had been relocated to San Antonio, TX, where a new company, Kruger-Atlas, continued to manufacture gas engines under their own name.

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This Atlas engine is used to power a DeLoach saw mill at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture in Tifton, GA. It was supposedly made in 1897. The museum has a second identical engine in storage as a replacement for this engine should something happen to it.