Calmet Model B-C Water Meter
- Description
- This oscillating piston water meter with split case and no serial number fit a ¾” pipe. It was made by the Well Machinery & Supply Company in Fort Worth, Texas. It has a cast-iron body and so was probably made during the materials restrictions of World War II.The city of Fort Worth agreed, in 1930, to purchase 8,000 oscillating piston meters from the California Meter Company of Los Angeles. The Well Machinery & Supply Company acquired California Meter soon thereafter, and advertised Calmet water meters as “A Texas Made Product.”
- Ref: “Water Meter Concern Cites Accepted Bid,” Los Angeles Times (Aug. 30, 1930), p. E1.
- Well Machinery & Supply Company, Calmet. The Precision Built Water Meter (Fort Worth, n.d.).
- Object Name
- water meter
- date made
- early 1940s
- maker
- Well Machinery & Supply Company
- Physical Description
- cast iron (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 9 in; 19.05 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made
- United States: Texas, Fort Worth
- ID Number
- PH*325825
- accession number
- 245003
- catalog number
- 325828
- subject
- Water Meters
- Measuring & Mapping
- Natural Resources
- Water
- World War II
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Water Meters
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- A.A. Hirsch
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