Brighton Copper Works

Company History: On June 10, 1914, Alvin Hock put out a hand-lettered sign advertising a “Practical Coppersmith,” and the company that would become Brighton Tru-Edge was born. By 1919, Alvin was doing business as “Brighton Copper Works, Coppersmith,” named for the Cincinnati suburb.
His products included copper kettles for the food industry, including kettles for candy, ice cream, fresh pot ice cream freezers, and varnish kettles. After the repeal of prohibition in 1933, Brighton Copper Works added brewery and distillery copper work into its line of products. In 1944, Alvin Hock, serving as the company’s president, purchased Hamilton Copper & Brass Works in Hamilton, Ohio. By the 1950s, the company had changed its name to Brighton Corporation, signaling the diversity of work the company produces.
Then in 1986, Brighton was purchased by Trinity Industries. Jeff Hock, the son of Paul Hock and grandson of Alvin, served the company as a vice president and had a vision for its growth.
Today the company is the largest cold-form head manufacturer in North America.

Successor/Parent History: The company, first known as Trinity Steel, was founded by C. J. Bender in Dallas in 1933. W. Ray Wallace, an engineering graduate of Louisiana Tech, worked for Dallas's Austin Bridge Company in 1944 before joining the company in 1946 as its seventeenth employee. At the time Trinity Steel manufactured butane tanks in a Dallas County mule barn. In 1958 Trinity Steel merged with Dallas Tank Company, which was also founded in 1933, and Ray Wallace became the new firm's president and first chief executive officer. At the time Trinity had revenues reaching $2.5 million and employed 200 workers. While some employees of the firm in other states eventually unionized, Texas workers never formed a union. For a time the company profited by producing larger tanks that enabled it to enter the petroleum business and do steel fabrication for refineries. In addition, to free up capital, it established an investment company to buy trucks and lease them back to the firm. Nonetheless, by 1957 Trinity faced competition and declines in the petroleum industry. Dallas Tank, Trinity Steel, and Bender-Wallace Development Company merged in 1958 to form Trinity Industries, Incorporated, and went public.

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