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Perfection/Hupp Lighted Advertising Display Clock

  Lot # 018
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Very Good-needs cleaning
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Approx. 18" x 24"
Location
Basement Family Room
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Lot # 018
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Rare, Vintage Perfection Furnaces and Air Conditioners Heat Pumps Lighted Display Clock. Clock is in working condition.

In 1888 Francis Drury partnered with H.P. Parsons of Chicago to manufacture oil heating and cooking stoves and the Cleveland Foundry Company was formed. They manufactured a line of oil lamp stoves. In 1894, the plant started producing portable heaters. In 1901 Francis Drury approached John D. Rockefeller of Cleveland owner of Standard Oil Company. At the time Standard Oil was delivering kerosene to homes and businesses for use in kerosene lamps. Rockefeller knew that with use of the Drury Stove the demand for this kerosene would increase substantially and it did. Rockerfeller selected the company to design, develop and manufacture for it a complete line of stoves which were to be sold under the name "Perfection" to dealers by a group of 300 Standard Oil salesmen. This arrangement was continued by other oil companies. The Perfection product lineup was extremely important to the growth of American civilization.  By 1918, over 5,000,000 heaters were in use.  By 1922, over 3,000,000 Perfection kitchen stoves and ranges were in use in American homes!  A sizeable percentage of households used a Perfection product on a daily basis. In 1954, the company opened a plant in Georgia, taking over an existing 156,000 sq ft factory near Waynesboro. In 1955, it changed it's name to Perfection Industries, Inc. and was purchased by Hupp Corporation.