Wetmore-Savage Company - Electrical Merchandise [Catalog number twenty-one]

Boston, Massachusetts: Wetmore-Savage Company, 1921. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. xl, 1472 pages. 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles. Spine frayed at the top, corners worn. A well worn, but solid survivor - especially for a catalog that bulks almost three inches thick. Cloth. A huge catalog with everything electrical that could be bought in the 1921-22 season from the company. Everything from insulators to wires to motor driven appliances to transformers to you name it.

Bruce Wetmore in 1906 founded "the Wetmore-Savage Company, an electrical supply business, with Hanson M. Savage. In 1918 the company (truncated) went into the automotive equipment business following its purchase of the Motor Car Equipment Co. Wetmore-Savage was the New England distributor for Westinghouse, Gould, Holophane, and the Auburn Rubber Company. In 1925, Westinghouse purchased the Wetmore-Savage Electric Supply Company, but not its automotive equipment business. Wetmore remained president of Wetmore-Savage following the sale. In 1931, Wetmore and John W. Scott started the Wetmore-Scott Company to sell Westinghouse household appliances in Greater Boston. In 1933, Wetmore-Scott was sold to Westinghouse.Wetmore later served as Westinghouse's New England manager." (Wikipedia)

An interesting side note for those interested in sports. Wetmore owned shares in the Boston Braves baseball team, and was instrumental in the founding of Suffolk Downs. (Inventory #: 29266)