This heavy-duty disc water meter was made by the Federal Meter Corporation in East Orange, N. J. It has oil-enclosed gears, a frost-proof bottom, and serial number 145,138. It fit a ⅝” pipe. Federal Meter, a subsidiary of the A.P. Smith Manufacturing Company, was in business from 1925 to 1945.
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