Catalog no. 108: Buffalo fan system of heating and ventilating
A 1914 trade catalogue issued by the Buffalo Forge Company, a American manufacturer of heating and ventilating equipment, aimed at engineers, builders and heating contractors specifying fan systems for buildings. The four pictures are photographic views of large steel housed fans, with riveted sheet metal casings, flanged intake and outlet ducts, and attached steam or motor drives, one with a bank of heating coil pipes beside it. A designer might take their industrial rivet and panel detailing, and the bold curved volute forms of the casings as a graphic motif.
