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File Folder for H. H. Scott
Description
The folder contains documents pertaining to H. H. Scott when the company was located at 111 Powder Mill Road, Maynard, including operating manuals, equipment schematics, promotional materials, owners manuals, service information etc. Shown is the instruction booklet cover for a compact stereo and a promotional brochure for Scott kits. The company was founded by Hermon Hosmer Scott in 1947 in Cambridge, MA, and relocated to Maynard in 1957.
Contributor
The notes are developed from research done by Terry Jones
Identifier
2019.849
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Notes on trhe Maynard Years:
The company is founded in 1947 in Cambridge, MA. by Herman Hosmer Scott, born in 1909, with a BS and MS from MIT and a doctorate from Lowell Institute. His technical leadership was recognized by election as Fellow in the Institute of Radio Engineers, Acoustical Society of America, and Audio Engineering Soiciety. He is the author of many technical papers and articles. He also held more than 100 patents primarily in the field of electronics.
In 1957, Scott moves his company into a new facility at 111 Powder Mill Road, Maynard, as noted in 'History of Maynard, 1871-1971' published by the Maynard Historical Commission: "In 1957, the firm ... became the first major industry in many years to build its own plant in Maynard. The ultra-modern quarters are situated on a fifteen acre plot of land on Powder Mill Road"
Victor H. Pomper, an MIT grad who joins the company in 1950, is named President sometime in the 1960's. The company is a leader in sound quality, and it continually innovates to meet the market. It develops and sells tape decks. It offers compact stereos with stand-alone speakers. Some products are sold in kits for buyer assembly.
The 1957 move to Maynard comes because the company is growing. And it continues to grow. In 1960 the company takes additional space in the Maynard Industrial Park. In 1967 the company builds an addition on the Powder Mill Road plant that substantilly increases the size of the company's facility.
The 1967 addition comes around the time of the company's peak sales and presumably its peak profits. In 1968, Scott's sales top $15 million, a figure reported in a 1972 Maynard Beacon article.
After 1968, Scott begins a downward spiral of profits resulting in worker layoffs and downsizing of production. By 1973 the company is in bankrupcy and acquired by SYMA of Belgium, Scott's European distributor. The H. H. Scott company operates from Maynard for seventeen years (1957 -1975) through the period of its greatest success and its demise.
Herman Scott dies in 1975. At the time of his death he lives in Lincoln, MA. That same year the company he founded, built and then lost moves from Maynard to Woburn, MA. In 1985, H. H. Scott is purchased by Emerson Electric.
The company is founded in 1947 in Cambridge, MA. by Herman Hosmer Scott, born in 1909, with a BS and MS from MIT and a doctorate from Lowell Institute. His technical leadership was recognized by election as Fellow in the Institute of Radio Engineers, Acoustical Society of America, and Audio Engineering Soiciety. He is the author of many technical papers and articles. He also held more than 100 patents primarily in the field of electronics.
In 1957, Scott moves his company into a new facility at 111 Powder Mill Road, Maynard, as noted in 'History of Maynard, 1871-1971' published by the Maynard Historical Commission: "In 1957, the firm ... became the first major industry in many years to build its own plant in Maynard. The ultra-modern quarters are situated on a fifteen acre plot of land on Powder Mill Road"
Victor H. Pomper, an MIT grad who joins the company in 1950, is named President sometime in the 1960's. The company is a leader in sound quality, and it continually innovates to meet the market. It develops and sells tape decks. It offers compact stereos with stand-alone speakers. Some products are sold in kits for buyer assembly.
The 1957 move to Maynard comes because the company is growing. And it continues to grow. In 1960 the company takes additional space in the Maynard Industrial Park. In 1967 the company builds an addition on the Powder Mill Road plant that substantilly increases the size of the company's facility.
The 1967 addition comes around the time of the company's peak sales and presumably its peak profits. In 1968, Scott's sales top $15 million, a figure reported in a 1972 Maynard Beacon article.
After 1968, Scott begins a downward spiral of profits resulting in worker layoffs and downsizing of production. By 1973 the company is in bankrupcy and acquired by SYMA of Belgium, Scott's European distributor. The H. H. Scott company operates from Maynard for seventeen years (1957 -1975) through the period of its greatest success and its demise.
Herman Scott dies in 1975. At the time of his death he lives in Lincoln, MA. That same year the company he founded, built and then lost moves from Maynard to Woburn, MA. In 1985, H. H. Scott is purchased by Emerson Electric.
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