The Wendell August Forge in Grove City, Pennsylvania, has been in business since 1932. Among its notable products were ashtrays made for the Millionaires Flight of the Hindenburg.
The fire started in a workshop and rapidly consumed the building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Fortunately, many of the iconic dies were spared.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040959-54.stm. Wendell August Forge history.
The flight was jointly organized by the Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei (DZR) and Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso), which supplied hydrogen and diesel fuel to the Hindenburg, and each passenger was given a souvenir duralumin ashtray with a glass model of the airship filled with Esso diesel fuel.
The fire started in a workshop and rapidly consumed the building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Fortunately, many of the iconic dies were spared.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040959-54.stm. Wendell August Forge history.
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Not irony.
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iiiiironyyyy
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A souvenir vile of diesel fuel attached to an ashtray, given to passengers of a giant gas-filled balloon? Makes sense to me, lets do it!
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Somehow an ashtray and diesel fuel seem like a bad combo...
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Hm.. Nope. Wait! Wait! Nope. Just can't figure out what the title of this article is trying to say.
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