FULLER BRUSH COMPANY
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The 'Fuller Brush Company' was founded January 1, 1906, by Alfred C. Fuller, a businessman from Nova Scotia, Canada.
The company began with door-to-door sales of brushes of various sorts, including hairbrushes with a lifetime guarantee, for which the company gained fame. Since 1973, Fuller Brushes and over 2,000 other products have been manufactured near Great Bend, Kansas, in Barton County. ''The Fuller Brush Man'' was the title of a 1948 comedy movie starring Red Skelton and Janet Blair. ''The Fuller Brush Girl'' was the title of a 1950 comedy movie starring Lucille Ball and Eddie Albert.
The main factory for the Fuller Brush Company was located in East Hartford, CT during the 1960s. It had moved from Hartford (other side of river) some years earlier. In the early 1970s, the company was bought out (after Mr. Fuller’s death) and moved to Kansas.
At the East Hartford plant, Mr. Fuller's son Avard ran the company. The Research Division was there, along with the plastics molding operation.
'Charter Plant in Philmont, NY'
The blow molding of plastic bottles & toothbrush operation was in Philmont, NY, which was located on a major East-West & North-South major highway junction in upper NY state.
The Industrial Brush Division was also at the East Hartford plant, where they made large motor-driven brushes for developing newspaper printing photo metal plates. All the mops were sewn at this plant. The perfuming operation was there also, including a large machine to detect what was in perfume made by other companies. At the plant was a man who bent brush assemblies all day long, he had become blind during WWII while held as a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese, who forced him to arc-weld without protective glasses. Fuller had also given their entire corn-broom manufacturing equipment to a blind organization that made & sold the brooms.
In front of the East Hartford plant was a large glass case with a stuffed large boar that represented the boar hair used in some of the original Fuller brushes. There was also a Mohawk Plant in Albany, NY.
Fuller had a "private label" division, Charter Products, that sold duplicate products under other brand names chosen by the distributor. Avard's interest in boating resulted in experiments at the plant with plastic molding of port lights (windows) for boats, including full plastic hardware.
The East Hartfor plant contained an attached large warehouse that was also served by a Railroad siding. The stainless steel scrubbies were made there also.
Jonny Fuller, the grandson, raced a Volvo sports car at Thompson sports car track in CT. Carol Ketchum worked on the cosmetics line at Fuller; she was the Canadian niece of Alfred by his first wife.
★ Fuller Brush Company
★ Photographs of Alfred Fuller Memorial
★ Fuller Brush Company History
The company began with door-to-door sales of brushes of various sorts, including hairbrushes with a lifetime guarantee, for which the company gained fame. Since 1973, Fuller Brushes and over 2,000 other products have been manufactured near Great Bend, Kansas, in Barton County. ''The Fuller Brush Man'' was the title of a 1948 comedy movie starring Red Skelton and Janet Blair. ''The Fuller Brush Girl'' was the title of a 1950 comedy movie starring Lucille Ball and Eddie Albert.
The main factory for the Fuller Brush Company was located in East Hartford, CT during the 1960s. It had moved from Hartford (other side of river) some years earlier. In the early 1970s, the company was bought out (after Mr. Fuller’s death) and moved to Kansas.
At the East Hartford plant, Mr. Fuller's son Avard ran the company. The Research Division was there, along with the plastics molding operation.
'Charter Plant in Philmont, NY'
The blow molding of plastic bottles & toothbrush operation was in Philmont, NY, which was located on a major East-West & North-South major highway junction in upper NY state.
The Industrial Brush Division was also at the East Hartford plant, where they made large motor-driven brushes for developing newspaper printing photo metal plates. All the mops were sewn at this plant. The perfuming operation was there also, including a large machine to detect what was in perfume made by other companies. At the plant was a man who bent brush assemblies all day long, he had become blind during WWII while held as a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese, who forced him to arc-weld without protective glasses. Fuller had also given their entire corn-broom manufacturing equipment to a blind organization that made & sold the brooms.
In front of the East Hartford plant was a large glass case with a stuffed large boar that represented the boar hair used in some of the original Fuller brushes. There was also a Mohawk Plant in Albany, NY.
Fuller had a "private label" division, Charter Products, that sold duplicate products under other brand names chosen by the distributor. Avard's interest in boating resulted in experiments at the plant with plastic molding of port lights (windows) for boats, including full plastic hardware.
The East Hartfor plant contained an attached large warehouse that was also served by a Railroad siding. The stainless steel scrubbies were made there also.
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Fuller family
Jonny Fuller, the grandson, raced a Volvo sports car at Thompson sports car track in CT. Carol Ketchum worked on the cosmetics line at Fuller; she was the Canadian niece of Alfred by his first wife.
External links
★ Fuller Brush Company
★ Photographs of Alfred Fuller Memorial
★ Fuller Brush Company History
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