Oral history interview with Scott R. Johnson [electronic resource], 1975

Biographical Note

Executive.

Scope and Contents

Family can manufacturing background; organization of Continental Can's Central Equipment Development Division Department from four machine shops; lithography in 1920s; work at Warwood, Penick & Ford, A.C. Horn Co.; father's business ventures; machine design for industrial engineering firm; lap seam body maker; Wheeling Steel and Wheeling Can acquisitions; foreign acquisitions: move to England, construction of Perry Wood plant; French and German associates; rebuilding Acton factory; research work on beer cans; setting up Toronto plant; Schmalbach plant, problems with German tinplate; pre-World War II Germany; equipment development; purchase of Cameron Machinery Co.; management personalities; triple-tight paint can problems; employee benefits.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• International business enterprises.
• Interviews.
• Johnson, Scott R.--Interviews.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.
• Oral histories.