Roll Forming Steel in the 1920s: The History of Dahlstrom Roll Form (Part 4 of 8)

Originally, forming was done with wooden dies using a drawbench, then steel rollers, and, in the 1920s with the advent of hardened steel, production efficiency, and quality increased tremendously. With hardened steel, beautiful decorator trim could be made from harder stainless steels.
Dies for special shapes as well as stock dies for mouldings and shapes -- 1,000s of them -- were produced in the company’s own tool department to cut tooling costs. Almost any kind of shape that can be rolled or pressed can be fabricated by Dahlstrom.
Cabinets built to specification for housing manufacturers’ mechanical equipment and products presented a wide range of problems to be resolved by Dahlstrom engineers and craftsmen. Through the years, Eastman Kodak, IBM, and Xerox were among the manufacturers in the computer and electronics industry who looked to Dahlstrom for the precision fabrication they require in their cabinets. The Super “C” steel floor joist eventually became another addition to the Dahlstrom product line and was welcomed by the building industry because of rapidly depleting lumber resources at the time. It also didn’t hurt that steel doesn’t warp, shrink, or rot.
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