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OUR PROUD HISTORY The Bartelstone Glass story started in nineteenth
century England, where the Bartelstone family began its earliest operations long before automobiles filled the world's
roads. Arriving in New York City around 1900, they set up shop as a flat glass company serving the lower part of Manhattan
Island by horse and wagon. In the 1920s the company moved to our current location on Jerome Ave in the Bronx and continued
to distribute flat glass for storefronts and other buildings. In 1933, Bartelstone
began installing safety glass in automobiles and continued to do this through world War II. At the war's end, our
current co-owner, Jack Kent joined the company and continued our development in auto glass according to the changing
industry and automobile technology.
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By the 1950s, Bartelstone was in the wholesale glass business providing mirrors, flat glass, and automobile glass,
representing such well-known manufacturers as Shatter Proof Glass, PPG, Ford and Chrysler. From the mid-1950s to
the mid-1970s, Bartelstone ran an automobile glass business and a flat glass distribution business at the same time.
However, as auto glass went on the upswing, we concentrated on the wholesale auto glass business selling our tremendous auto
glass stock to shops all over the country as well as the world. As a source for auto glass for current vehicles as well
as classic cars, Bartelstone Glass has grown and strengthened its position in the market. |
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