Came across photos of a 1930's boiler

CoachBoilermaker

https://imgur.com/a/1930s-boiler-omhjzv2

EdTheHeaterMan

I have seen a Buderus boiler installed in a convent in the United States with those generally accepted markings from the 1930s. When someone made it a symbol for evil, the actual parts that were made with that emblem embossed on them, those parts and equipment didn't also become a symbol for evil. They are the same parts that some proud German workers made while working in a German factory. That convent with the Buderus Boiler made in the 1930s did not all of a sudden become evil because it had a German boiler in it. It was just hard to get replacement parts in the 1940s, but that is another story that many World War II veterans did not want to talk about and many took those storied to their graves.

Awesome find!

mattmia2

I think that boiler might be from the teens or 20's and those symbols are unrelated to the Nazis.

DanHolohan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

JUGHNE

There are at least 2 forms of the swastika. It depends upon the rotation of the figure.

The feared one is shown above. I have seen it on valves and gas stops on pre WW2 installs.

The other would be drawn in the opposite direction rotation and was around forever. It is a sign of a positive force, thinking and luck/karma.

I have seen the positive one in India and Chicago in exterior wall design. And even in Nebraska. There is a store with the design in the small floor tiles in one room.

The owner had not heard of the two designs but still keeps the public out of that room.

BobC

The town of Hull Ma has a swastika imbedhed in it's ceramic tiled flooring. They were meant to convey good luck at that time..

nytimes.com

Massachusetts Town Votes To Remove Indian Swastikas

The New York Times 2–3 minutes

Jan. 14, 1990

Credit...The New York Times Archives

Officials of this seaside community near Boston have decided to remove a floor whose tiles have American Indian swastikas inlaid in them. The floor was laid in Town Hall 66 years ago, before the Nazis adopted the ancient mystic emblem.

Selectmen voted Wednesday night to carpet over the mosaic floor after protests from the Jewish Defense League. It will eventually be altered to eliminate the swastikas.

For American Indians, the swastika is an emblem of peace and good luck. Nazi Germany saw to it that the crooked cross was associated with virulent anti-Semitism and the deaths of six million Jews.

Hull, a coastal community about eight miles from downtown Boston, is home to about 1,000 Jews, town officials said. The inlaid floor was first criticized six years ago by a local newspaper columnist who is Jewish.

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 14, 1990, Section 1, Page 19 of the National edition with the headline: Massachusetts Town Votes To Remove Indian Swastikas.