Jim, I think that GHC made Wear Ever, and thay bought out Wagner ware and Griswold at the Wagner Factory. Steve could do better than this.
clark
Where-Ever did you come up with that information Clark? I can do better I hope but I have to rely on a book (The Housewares Story) to come up with my information:
The Pittsburgh Reduction Co., which was either owned by Alcoa or became part of Alcoa, bought the defunct Hill, Whitney & Wood manufacturing equipment and moved it to the old Excelsior Flint Glass Co.. plant in New Kensington and started a new line of cooking utensils. It was the Reduction Co. who encouraged Griswold to make a cast aluminum tea kettle but Griswold did not give an order to Reduction Co. but began to make the kettles themselves.
In 1901 the Reduction Co. incorporated the United States Aluminum Co. and also formed the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. which was to be the selling organization for the utensils. The trade name "Wear-Ever" was adopted in 1903
Wear-Ever remained part of Alcoa in 1971 which is when the book I got this information from was published. I have no idea of what happened to Wear-Ever after 1971 or if it exists today. A Google search should turn up some information.
Steve
