Maker Info
Alden Manufacturing Company
In 1920, Charles Napier, formerly of Napier Saw Works, Springfield, Massachusetts, teamed up with Milton Alden, also from Springfield, to incorporate as the Alden-Napier Company. The new firm planned to purchase or build a plant to conduct a general molding business, foundry, and machine shop. The product would be bakelite for insulators and other devices, which at that time were made by the Dental Electric Company of 43 Dwight Street, Springfield. The plan was to assume this work from Dental Electric.
In 1922, the company was renamed the Alden Manufacturing Company, but the prior history was immortalized in its ongoing use of the trademark NA-ALD.
The firm produced vacuum tube sockets and a host of radio components in the 1920s. The firm's advertisements appear in numerous wireless and radio publications of the period.