Talk:NL Industries

Proposed merge with CompX International

merge subsidiary to main company 'DGG (at NYPL)' (talk) 20:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Endorse merger proposal unless there is evidence that the subsidiary company is notable for something other than merely doing what businesses in its line of business do. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 23:18, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Disagree. History seems to disappear when this is done. Sufficient links to main company suffice.Mydogtrouble (talk) 15:06, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

CompX Internationalis now part of this Wiki Why?

There is no mention on how this relates to NL Industries. Idontno2 (talk) 03:35, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

History of oil service companies has gone missing

Mention should be made of NL Baroid and NL McCullough, large entities which existed in the oil field services industries and had worldwide markets.Mydogtrouble (talk) 15:08, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Defunct Exide Battery Recycler in Los Angeles

Material that can be used for the article. All of this is about a plant in Vernon which National Lead owned for probably about 49 years.

• Agreement in quadruplicate dated December 7, 1929, with Morris P. Kirk, J. Paul Kirk and John H. Leavell for the purchase of all assets of Morris P. Kirk & Son, Inc, etc.
• 1930 Company acquired Morris P. Kirk and Son - (Lead alloys)
• National Lead (currently NL Industries) acquired Morris P. Kirk & Sons, Inc. in 1953. In 1979 they sold it to Gould.
  • Sometimes I think primary sources are better than secondary sources. Two documents from National Lead say the plant was acquired in 1929-1930 and a secondary source says 1953.
• The lead problem at the Vernon plant, which was acquired by Exide in 2000, goes back a long time. In the 1970s, Jim Dahlgren, today a retired physician, treated 120 severely lead-poisoned workers from the plant, then owned by National Lead.
  • I think Jim Dahlgren's name is James George Dahlgren
• EPA ID CAN000909463 of the site

2601:145:4380:C290:978:B5C8:8135:D2ED (talk) 18:16, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Pre-Texas History

National Lead Vernon California (Later EXIDE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJXKJVlMVk

https://cdn.toxicdocs.org/Vj/Vjq7e23280ZD8gXorz7e2Xq1q/Vjq7e23280ZD8gXorz7e2Xq1q.pdf National Lead Co. was formed by bringing together a number of manufacturers of white lead doing business in different sections of the country. Overcoming local pride and deep-rooted tradition (one member of the National Lead family had been doing business in an Eastern city continuously since 1772), he gradually submerged all local names to one strong national brand and contributed materially to the building of a $320,000,000 annual business.

https://cdn.toxicdocs.org/yr/yr0ROyraroQakr35zgN6ENDBd/yr0ROyraroQakr35zgN6ENDBd.pdf JOHN B. HENRICH, Jr., Attorney for Petitioner, National Lead Company, 111 Broadway, New York, New York.

https://cdn.toxicdocs.org/1V/1VM2eyng84DGxdqxEBrmXzgd/1VM2eyng84DGxdqxEBrmXzgd.pdf NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY New York, Baltimore, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, St. Louis; National-Boston Lead Company, Boston; Georgia Lead Company, Atlanta; Gibson & Price Company, Cleveland;

https://cdn.toxicdocs.org/N2/N2vvMMK2pbMk31qdZ5YDBJoDD/N2vvMMK2pbMk31qdZ5YDBJoDD.pdf NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 111 BROADWAY. NEW YORK 8, N.Y.

I'm still looking through Toxic Docs to find more.