Talk:Eddystone, Pennsylvania

Industrial Decline
I would like to have a section on Eddystone's industrial decline, since it is seminal in Eddystone's history. The Eddystone Manufacturing Company (EMC) and Baldwin Locomotive Works seem to have gone out of business at about the same time, but I could not find any information on EMC's demise.Juliensorelnyc (talk) 19:37, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

"Two-thirds" of WW I rifles? Absurd!
Eddystone was one of three manufacturers of the M1917 "Enfield" rifle. The M1917 made up something over half of the rifles used by US forces; of that number Eddystone made slightly more than half.

At best, Eddystone M1917s were well less than one third of the rifles used by US forces. See www.odcmp.org/503/rifle.pdf for production figures and general information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.180.83 (talk) 08:07, 6 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Interesting. The two-thirds claim comes from a cited source (Westing 1966), but nevertheless it could very easily be inaccurate. The reason why is pretty much what's discussed here (i.e., quite possibly Mr Westing as one individual author in 1966 heard/read a claim from someone else and had no practical [non–unduly-burdensome] way to verify it via independent sources, and perhaps didn't see any need to [trusting the source]). So I would say that we can rewrite that sentence to something like the following, in pursuit of accuracy: "Westing (1966) said that two-thirds of rifles used by U.S. troops in France in WWI were made at Eddystone.[ref] But others[ref] have shown that that is probably an exaggeration." I'll try to remember to do that this week. Or feel free to take a crack at it if you want. I envision citing the URL you provided as the second ref. PS: It occurs to me that we should attempt to ascertain whether his two-thirds number is incorrect for France alone (vs the whole war). Maybe it is or isn't; I didn't check out your URL suggestion yet. Regards, — ¾-10 04:15, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Explosion
The word "explosion" without any other comment implies that it was an accident. But that's debatable, isn't it? I've seen it referred to elsewhere as an act of terrorism. Seems like an important point, and a pretty important piece of the town's history. Rosekelleher (talk) 20:56, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

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