Gal Manufacturing Corp Careers in Bronx, NY

Herbert Paul Glaser, an industrious German emigrant, along with his friends Jack Abramowitz, and Harold Leon, put their savings together in 1927 and founded G.A.L. Electro Mechanical Services. With $900, the partners bought a couple of pieces of equipment and started building and repairing elevator related equipment in the basement of a building at 178th and Amsterdam in New York.With Glaser providing a steady stream of new designs, the company began to grow. In the first 6 months GAL was carrying 10 products that had been designed and built in house. Still, times were tight, and in 1929, Jack Abramowitz decided to go his own way. The company grew slowly and steadily until war broke out in 1941. At that time, like many businesses, GAL was pressed into manufacturing war materials for several years. The line of elevator products, gate switches, interlocks, and the like, were set aside to support our country. When the war was over, GAL returned to it's roots in earnest. There was an ever burgeoning number of ind