The Dorchester Beacon, October 26, 1907
Fraser Machine & Manufacturing Co.
Factory and office located on Freeport Street
This company was established and incorporateed in 1906 under the laws of massachusetts with a capital of $37,000, the officers being, president, Warren F. Fraser, and secretary, Robert J. Murray.
The business is somewhat of a new departure in machinery, being for the prupose of inventing, designing and building any and all kinds of automatic machinery for any special requirement which may develop in trade or manufacturing and for which they may be engaged. It is to develop machinery ideas and embody such in specific machines for any purpose, thus opening up an almost endless possibility of creative work in this line and requireing great inventive genius. It has been able to successfully develop machinery to meet the wants of a number of manufacturers and to supply them with the machines needed.
The actory is supplied with the finest machinery, especially selected for this peculiar and difficult class of work, as well as with all the usual machine ship plant. The plant is well-designed and equippped for the purpose and give employment to about 20 men stadily, most of whom are men of inventive ability.
The Fraser Machine and Manufacturing Co. not only takes the wants of manufacturers and invents, designs and builds to meet their requirements, but it also is ready to take and develop the ideas of other people, whenever requrested to do so. The greater number of products turned out by the company, however, have been invented and designed by the president, Warren F. Fraser, assisted by a force of expert designers and mechanics.
Personally, Warren F. Fraser is a young man, but on who has proved himself an inventive genius. He was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, in 1882. At the age of six, his parents moved to Hants County and settled. It was in this section, in one of the typical country schools, that Mr. Fraser obtained his fist schooling. His parents were noe well off in this wolrd’s goods, and, at the age of fourteen, young Fraser apprenticed himself at the Robb Engineering Co., at Amherst, Nova Scotia. While here he worked hard and larned much. When not at the works, Mr. Fraser was studying hard as a student at the international correpondence Schooos, in addition to which he was a close reader of all the leading technical bookws and papers. As a result, it is not to be wondered at theat when he left the service of the Robb concernin 1901, he was far in advance of any of those of his age then retained by the company. To better himself and to enter a broader field, Mr. Fraser entered the service of the G. A. Walker Machine Co., of Boston. The two years spent with this excellent concern gaye him much valuable experience. This, combined with his own inventive genius impelled hint to embark in business on his own account. Accordingly, in 1903. he invented and commenced the manufacture of the Fraser Pinning Machine, now extensively used by piano manufacturers. This machine has revolutionized the method of pinning piano actions. Notwithstanding its recognized merit, at tins time Mr. Fraser had much difficulty in putting his invention on the marker. He was handicapped by lack of fund, .but he worked night. and day perfecting his valuable machine, and finally, with some financial assistance, managed to put ‘his first machine on the market three years ago. With the further assistance of the G. A. Walker company, several other machines were produced. Mr. Fraser then continued building the machines until they became fully appreciated by and demanded by the trade. In addition, Mr. Fraser invented, designed and built other special machinery required ,by his customers\ and became so successful that in 1905, he organized the present Fraser Machine and Manufacturing co. This company was incorporated in January 1906 and has been very successful. One of Mr. Fraser’s newest inventions is a machine that sets the lacing hooks in shoes at the almost incredible speed of 500 each minute