Kaiser Fontana Steelworks In-House History and Overview (1943).
(Kaiser Fontana Steelworks) Description of Iron and Steel Plant, Fontana California. (On the front cover of the work, “General Description/Iron and Steel Plant/Fontana, California”.) 11”x 8.5”. 42 leaves (printed on Kaiser paper), plus 4 glossy photographs, plus 18 folding plates (some wonderfully in color). Mimeographed. Rare. $1500
This seems to be a fabulous illustrated overview produced in-house showing the strengths of the just-opened Kaiser Tontana plant, printed in January 1943.
“Kaiser Steel (later Kaiser Ventures and CIL&D), headquartered in Fontana, California, was founded by Henry J. Kaiser to provide steel plate for the Pacific Coast shipbuilding industry, which expanded during World War II, then shrank, then expanded again during the Korean War. California Shipbuilding Corporation on Terminal Island, California, was one of these shipyards which built hundreds of Liberty ships and Victory ships in World War II, and was also a project of Henry Kaiser. Kaiser Steel was noted for making the most of its costly steelmaking inputs, and it captured, along with the U.S. Steel plant in Utah, much of the Pacific Coast steel market by the late 1950s. Its assets included steelmaking plants in Napa, California (that it acquired from Basalt Rock Company in 1955) and Fontana, California (now operated by California Steel Industries), and a former open-pit iron ore mine at Eagle Mountain, California. Steel manufactured was also used in Kaiser Motors.”
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