Water Meter Covers
A couple of weeks ago my post was about industrial art and featured a water meter box cover. That photograph had been taken in Charleston, South Carolina (USA).
This week’s art challenge image is a photograph of a different water meter box cover, also taken in Charleston, South Carolina. As I said in my earlier post I will be processing multiple photographs of different utility covers in the next few weeks.
The photograph of the first box cover that I processed was in a rectangular format and the box cover was an oval. This week’s box cover is circular and the photograph was cropped as a square image. Both water meter box covers were manufactured by the Ford Meter Box Company in Wabash, Indiana (USA).
The Ford Meter Box Company, a family owned manufacturer, has been in business since 1898. Edwin Ford, who was a water system superintendent, designed and built the first underground meter box in his basement. His invention solved the problem of installing water meters where homes did not have basements. The meter box could be put in a pit to protect it from freezing during the cold winters in Indiana.
Throughout the decades the Ford Meter Box Company continued to design and build products for the waterworks industry. Their products can be found internationally as well as domestically.
Fun fact found on the company’s website: In 1921 Edwin Ford visited New Orleans, Louisiana on a sales trip. The design for the lid to cover the Ford® Crescent Box was made from a quick drawing made on a borrowed drawing table at the New Orleans water department.
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