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I am going to make a few changes on this page. I'm going to try and change any argumentative language. I also want to add a section explaining the impacts on public health in Los Angeles, and I want to expand on the environmental impacts in Los Angeles as well.

@Ashleycavv: What is argumentative language? You deleted the response of the residents rather than changing anything. It should be restored and any needed edits should be in compliance with sources. Fettlemap (talk) 04:48, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still in the process of writing; I'm adding later. This page has a warning for argumentative language; everything I deleted did not have sources to substantiate them. I think something to bring in responses from the residents would be a dedicated section with sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashleycavv (talk • contribs) 22:25, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello everyone. I am new to this page am looking for any tips on how to add to the content of this page. I think a list of previous violations by Exide would add relevant information leading up to the eventual closing of the site. What do you think? Davidmartinez (talk) 21:11, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I also think a proper legal description for an "interim status document" would give a clear idea of the staus in which the plant was operating under Davidmartinez (talk) 21:35, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Adding to the article would be great. A new subsection could be created under Background. You have plenty of guidance on your talk page. Cite the existing sources or obtain new reliable sources. Fettlemap (talk) 22:54, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Exide lead contamination was copied or moved into DieHard (brand) with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

The Electric Storage Battery Company 1888 - 1967 which became ESB, Inc. 1967 - 1974 which became Inco Electroenergy Corporation 1974 - 1983 which became Exide

Exide was a trademark of The Electric Storage Battery Company long before there was a company named Exide.

Moody's Manual of Investments: American and Foreign, Volume 13, Issue 2, 1922 The Electric Storage Battery Company -- History: Incorporated under New Jersey laws in June 1888, to manufacture and sell electric storage batteries. The company acquired the patents and good will of a large number of manufacturing and other concerns in this line of business, including the battery business of General Electric Company and the patent rights of the Westinghouse Storage Battery, Co., and owns all the capital stock of the Willard Storage Battery Co. Also acquired a controlling interest in the Chloride Electrical Storage Co. Ltd. of Manchester, England and has the exclusive right to manufacture in the United States under foreign patents. The plant is located at 19th Street and Allegheny Ave., Philadelphia. During 1920 company began construction of a new plant for the manufacture of electric starting and lighting devices for automobiles at Crescentville, Philadelphia, to cost when completed $2,000,000.

An article in the Philadelphia Enquirer on Monday March 27, 1950 page 28 a d "In 62nd Year--and Happy" says that Willard Storage Battery Co. was formed in 1902 when The Electric Storage Battery Co. bought a jewelry manufacturer that had been making batteries and that more Willard car batteries were being sold, Exide batteries were in second place.

Exide Industrial Division - Rising Sun and Adams Aves appears in a want ad in the Philadelphia Inquirer 1963-May-12. That intersection was the location of a lead-acid battery plant on land that the Electric Storage Battery Company purchased in 1919 according to an article in United States Investor, March 20, 1920, page 582 (30).

Labor Market Letter: Philadelphia area, Volumes 41-42. Department of Labor and Industry, Bureau of Employment Security, 1976 "Exide Power Systems, a division of ESB, Inc. will close its Rising Sun and Adams Avenue plant within the next year.

The Electric Storage Battery Company owned Rayovac. You can see an address in Israel change from being listed as Electric Storage Battery Company to being listed as Exide Corporation, probably as they were being bought out.

Name: RAYOVAC CORPORATION

Address: Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. (Wisconsin Corporation)

Address For Service: Sanford T. Colb & Co., 4 Sha'ar Hagai Street, P.O.B. 2273, Rehovot, 76122, Israel

* 11/1967 - THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY (NEW JERSEY CORPORATION)

* 12/1981 - ESB INCORPORATED (DELAWARE CORPORATION)

* 8/1983 - EXIDE CORPORATION

Everything that happened in Veron was a re-run of what happened in Crescentville from 1920 to 1979.^[1] There are just letters on Toxic Docs^[2], aerial images from Historic Aerials, images from the Dallin Aerial Survey Company in the Hagley Digital Archives^[3] etc.

References

^ "The History of Lead-Acid Battery Production in Crescentville, Philadelphia, PA". Medium. March 31, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-09-07. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
^ Kehoe, Robert A. (June 29, 1948). "Letter to the Electric Storage Battery Company". Retrieved April 2, 2020. The smelter building for the most part could only be described as incredibly dirty, poorly ventilated and generally lacking in any evidence of housekeeping.
^ Dallin, John Victor (October 10, 1930). "Exide Storage Battery Company, Rising Sun Avenue, Philadelphia". Hagley Digital Archives. Hagley Museum. Retrieved March 14, 2021.

Jamplevia (talk) 20:06, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

18th and Allegheny Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The original "Exide" operating in the 19th century.

inhalation of a mist formed from lead oxide plates being immersed in sulfuric acid^[1]

References

^ Balka, Henry W. (August 25, 1938). "Boal v. Electric Storage Battery Co". Justia US Law. US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Retrieved March 16, 2021. The process of pickling used in the plant involved the immersion of lead plates or "grids" in a bath of sulphuric acid mixed with water.

Jamplevia (talk) 14:08, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This Lead Is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities | NLM

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/thisleadiskillingus/index.html

[ESB-1] "The History of Lead-Acid Battery Production in Crescentville, Philadelphia, PA". Medium. March 31, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-09-07. Retrieved April 2, 2020.

[2] Kehoe, Robert A. (June 29, 1948). "Letter to the Electric Storage Battery Company". Retrieved April 2, 2020. The smelter building for the most part could only be described as incredibly dirty, poorly ventilated and generally lacking in any evidence of housekeeping.

[3] Dallin, John Victor (October 10, 1930). "Exide Storage Battery Company, Rising Sun Avenue, Philadelphia". Hagley Digital Archives. Hagley Museum. Retrieved March 14, 2021.

[4] Balka, Henry W. (August 25, 1938). "Boal v. Electric Storage Battery Co". Justia US Law. US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Retrieved March 16, 2021. The process of pickling used in the plant involved the immersion of lead plates or "grids" in a bath of sulphuric acid mixed with water.

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