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Why is a Street Fitting Called a Street Fitting?

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This message is a reply to an archived post by intoodeep on May 18, 2012 at 06:16:46.
The original subject was "Why is a Street Fitting Called a Street Fitting?".

The answer is quite simple. My 91 year old father told me many years ago. His father (my grandfather) who was a steam fitter in Chicago in the early 1900?s. His buddy and my dad?s godfather was also a steam fittter who developed the ?street? fitting. His name was Alexander Street, hence the origin of the street fitting and its name.
 
From a forum Narkive.com (a building and construction forum, the best explanation I found was as follows:
Post by ll
What is the origin and/or reason for the word street in street
ell. I know what it is but want to know the origin of the word
street. Thanks to any who might know.
Answer:
I seem to vaguely recall reading many years ago that the name derives
from one of the uses of the fitting. It would be threaded into a
tapped hole in the main running down the street, to make a connection
to a line running to a building. It's also known as a "service ell".
Jim
 
Down here we call them "Street Ells". So I guess that fits both narratives. I too have always wondered why, of all the pipe fittings named per their function, only one had the odd ball addition of a seemingly non essential word: Street. Course it's like the Ford that Henry built and the "Bessemer Converter" that Mr. Bessemer designed and developed for removing impurities from molten pig iron ore in the production of steel.....named after the inventor.
 
Wonder if Bessemer was from Bessemer Michigan? Or was it named after him? I'm assuming there was iron mining up around Bessemer at one time
 
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