Three Rivers Glass Co. (Lockhart)

Author: Bill Lockhart · Year: c.2010s (PDF prepared 2016; references Smith 1989, Roller 1997) · PDF: assets/pdfs/lockhart-three-rivers-glass.pdf

6-page Bill Lockhart monograph on the Three Rivers Glass Co. covering both the Three Rivers, Texas (1922–1936) plant and the Bastrop, Louisiana (1929–1933) satellite. Names Charles R. Tipps as the company’s founder. Cites Smith 1989 (TEXAS GLASS) and Roller 1997.

Relevance to H&H

Three Rivers Glass was H&H’s earliest Crystalvac jar supplier (1932–1936/37) — H&H placed an initial 250,000-jar order documented in the June 1932 Crystalvac launch press. Lockhart’s paper complements Smith 1989 on this critical supplier in three ways:

  1. Bastrop, Louisiana plant (1929–1933). Smith’s primary focus is the Three Rivers, TX plant. Lockhart documents the Bastrop satellite — relevant context for the firm’s capacity expansion at exactly the moment H&H’s Crystalvac order landed.
  2. Founder attribution. Lockhart names Charles R. Tipps (double-p). The KB’s Charles R. Tips page already documents this executive as secretary-treasurer (1922) → general manager → president (1931) → plaintiff in the 1946 anti-trust suit. The KB uses the single-p “Tips” spelling per contemporary 1920s-1930s SA newspaper attestations; the Lockhart “Tipps” variant is worth a curator-pass disambiguation.
  3. Roller 1997 cross-reference. Roller’s 1997 bottle reference is not yet held in this KB; Lockhart cites it for the 1922 incorporation timeline.

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