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Company, Jeanette, Pa., manufacturers of engines and mine ventilating fans. This position he held for about four months, when due to the reorganization of the company he resigned his position and accepted a position as designer of mill and crane motors with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. This work consisted in a full design of motors from the written electrical specification prepared by the electrical engineering department. In February, 1905, he left the Westinghouse Company to take a position as draftsman and designer at the Edgar Thomson Works of the Carnegie Steel Company. In September, 1905, he was made assistant engineer of these works. In 1906 Mr. Faunce was transferred to the general office of the Carnegie Steel Company, Pittsburgh, as special mechanical engineer, with a special problem of developing a method and equipment to make solid roll steel wheels and in addition to act as an assistant to E. E. Slick, chief engineer of the Carnegie Steel Company. This work was very successfully performed and a rolling mill was in operation early in 1908. In February, 1912, Mr. Faunce was made assistant superintendent of the Carnegie plant at McKee's Rocks, Pa., the Schoen Steel Wheel Works. In January, 1913, he was transferred to the Homestead Steel Works as assistant superintendent of the wheel department, and in October of the same year was made superintendent of the plant. He resigned from this position in June, 1919, to become superintendent of the wheel plant of the Cambria Steel Company, Johnstown. He has patents granted for much of this type of machinery. For years he has been connected with sales engineering work and a member of the A. R. A. and A. S. T. M. committees. The Cambria Steel Company car and structural shops has a capacity of 60 freight and tank cars per day, and when operating in full force employs between 2,600 and 2,800 men. Mr. Faunce is responsible for the engineering features of this plant, which are of prime importance. He was granted a professional engineer's certificate by the state of Pennsylvania in 1924.
In 1921 Mr. Faunce organized the Fayro Machine & Engineering Company, Johnstown, which was incorporated April 5, 1922, with the following officers: B. F. Faunce, president; James C. Ayers, vice president and treasurer; and John M. Rose, secretary. This company manufactures all kinds of machinery, such as machine boilers, coal and ore tipples, chutes, cars, locomotive tires, stacks, mine pumps, torch work and engineering, miscellaneous iron work, etc. On October 1, 1925, the Fayro Machine & Engi-
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