Talk:Chas. T. Main

This isn't a fake company it was very, America government and big corporations love blowing smoke

kiProject Business & Economics|class=start|importance=mid}} I think this company is bogus, meaning fictitious, made up by the communist john perkins, to substantiate his stories. Does it have any connections to the NSA?

A quick google search shows abundant independent evidence that the company existed during the period covered by Perkins' book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aseriesoftubes (talk • contribs) 23:20, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, it took me all of 5 minutes to discover that the Northeastern University Library in Boston records show they have 0.15ft³ of records for Chas. T. Main, Inc.

This collection documents the various topics of research and work done by Chas. T. Main, Inc. in areas of engineering, such as electrical, hydroelectric, and mechanical. The collection contains an index of articles written by and about Chas T. Main, Inc. and related fields of engineering. The index indicates topic, title, author, location, and date the article was presented. This collection also includes a reprint of an address given at the 1975 National Meeting of the Newcomen Society by W. M. Hall and C. A. Dauber about the history of Chas. T. Main, Inc.

A quick search for publications by Chas. T. Main, Inc. yielded the following results (this is only part of the results)

• The National Library of Australia holds a copy of Chas. T. Main, Inc. : a professional legacy, by Wilfred McGregor Hall & C A Dauber. Published by Newcomen Society in North America, 1975. (Newcomen publication, no. 1025).
• The University of Texas holds a copy of The Economic impact of section 21(H) of the Environmental Protection Act of the State of Illinois, proposed regulation R80-19, by Chas. T. Main, Inc., Published by Springfield, Ill. (325 W. Adams, Springfield 62706) : Illinois Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources, Policy and Planning Division, Research Section, [1982], (Illinois. Department of Energy and Natural Resources), no. 82/23.
• The Thousand Oaks Public Library in California holds a copy of The Economic impact of proposed Regulation 79-11 to allow a relaxation of APC Rule 203(G) for particulate matter, by Chas. T. Main, Inc., published by Chicago, IL (309 W. Washington St., Chicago 60606) : State of Illinois, Institute of Natural Resources, [1980], Document (Illinois Institute of Natural Resources), no. 80/24.
• Stanford Universities Library (and the International Monetary Fund) hold copies of Program for development of surface storage in the Indus Basin and elsewhere within West Pakistan; comprehensive report, by Chas. T. Main, Inc., published by "Boston, 1966".

A quick Google Books searched found

• this memorial to the chairman of the company in Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 3, By National Academy of Engineering.
• As well as many other references in books.

Legal references? I only did a cursory search - there are many.

• Here's one - CHAS. T. MAIN, INC. vs. MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE AUTHORITY.

I'd be very surprised if a day spent in Boston libraries going through newspaper records, and Boston court records wouldn't produce volumes of additional evidence of the companies existence.

Did Chas. T. Main, Inc. do projects in Indonesia?

• Another two minute search seems to indicate they did - The Power of a Mother's Prayer: The Life Story of D. Ralph Young, by D. Ralph Young.
• Supported by this USAid document about the West Java Transmission and Distribution Rehabilitation Project Report, April 1976.

--SFITCS (talk) 12:53, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi! In fact, don't running a website as a company doesn't mean that the company possibly doesn't exist. Is there any public register where a civilian can validate that this company exists? That's a huge problem in our system... Free enterprise economy is a great thing... But without market- and company-monitoring for perusal, those articles can't be validated... Happy X-mas! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.187.21.65 (talk) 19:08, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

According to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, it's a real company. See Chas. T. Main International, Inc. v. Khuzestan Water & Power Authority, et al., 500 F. Supp. 1162 aff'd 651 F.2d800. The opening paragraph at the Court of Appeal says,

Chas. T. Main International, Inc. (Main) is an engineering firm incorporated in Massachusetts and having its principal place of business in Boston. On November 20, 1979, Main brought suit in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the government of Iran and various Iranian governmental entities to obtain payment for services it had rendered in Boston and Iran in connection with certain Iranian electrification projects...

You can fake a web page, perhaps, but you can't fake a Court of Appeal decision.

--Terazol (talk) 06:19, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Still the question remains whether this should be part of Wikipedia. And if it will, then I believe this article needs to be heavily expanded. Right now there is hardly any objective point of view about it made herein. No records of important or "big" projects? Revenue generated? "Famous" People working for it? And so on.. 80.108.103.172 (talk) 01:55, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

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