National Axle
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Machine shop. Eastside. Building to be reused as industrial incubator acc to front page story on June 24, 1927 San Jose News S. Clyde Kyle was vice-president of the company.
Some details of the plant are in an ad run by [Berger and Carter] in the August 20, 1920 San Jose Evening News. The ad documents the $150,000 in equipment being installed in July, 1920.
According to December 16, 1920 American Machinist":http://books.google.com/books?id=f7hLAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA1164&ots=uQQ4NASBPL&dq=%22national%20axle%22%20san%20jose&pg=PA1164#v=onepage&q=%22national%20axle%22%20san%20jose&f=false , merged in December, 1920 with [Berger and Carter (Hayward), [Smith Manufacturing] (San Jose), Wonder Dehydrator (San Francisco), and National Axle( San Jose). The new company would be called "Berger Fleming and Brown, with main offices in San Jose. The B&C Machinery factory was going to move to [Smith Manufacturing]'s site, while a new plant at National Axle would build dehydrators according to "The Canner] in December 1920.
National Axle eventually took over the former Luna Park amusement park to extend their plant.