Edward Hautz joined Harry Overly’s enterprise and The Overly-Hautz Company is founded. The company is a sheet-metal job shop with contracted work based on customer’s demand.
The Overly-Hautz Company, becoming a strong sheet-metal fabrication competitor in the Cleveland area, grows to occupy all 24,000 square feet of the building on Madison Ave.
During the war years, the plant takes on new war-effort contracts, producing parts for the Bofors gun mounts, water-tight gun mounts for submarines, and radar units.
Overly-Hautz creates a fabricated steel motor mount for Reliance Electric. This fabrication job develops into a highly successful proprietary product line.
Adapt-O-Mount product is first designed and fabricated by Overly-Hautz. It provides a simple method of adapting a new re-rated motor to the old mountings.
Shorewall of Grosse Ile, Michigan is acquired and becomes a division of Overly-Hautz. They create versatile wall systems for waterways, erosion control, and truck loading docks from light weight steel.
The Overly Hautz Motor Base Co acquires the product rights for the Automatic Motor Base invented and patented by Jerome J. Sloyan, the owner of the Automatic Motor Base Co,...
The front end office moves to the newly renovated adjoining property at 285 S. West St. The additional facility also provides for expansion of finished goods inventory, a vast shipping...
LEBANON, OHIO (December 11, 2016) The Automatic Motor Base is certified as an energy saving device by Advanced Energy, a certified motors and drives testing laboratory, of Raleigh, NC after...
The patent covers the invention of a screw mechanism which is used to adjust the position of a motor. The mechanism provides enhanced pulling power and a reduced likelihood of...
