[1] Originally started as a tinsmithy, the factory eventually expanded to the manufacture of boilers, electric engines and small generator plants.
[2] Some evidence exists that attempts were also made by the company to design and manufacture locomotive engines[3] as well as a small venture into shipwork.
These corporate changes saw the workforce at Dominion Bridge Company's operations in Amherst undergo major changes following the dissolution of Robb Engineering.
Robb Engineering gained notoriety during the 1990s after being blamed as the maker of faulty open web steel joists.
[6] Inspections costing into the millions of dollars, found that several thousand government buildings, in several provinces across eastern Canada, were involved.