WESTFIELD, Mass. - Smith Cast Iron Boilers teamed up with Wilkins Mechanical Services, a residential heating contractor in Bedford, N.H., to donate a Smith Boiler as a replacement for a 134-year-old working boiler.
The donation of a new Smith Series 8 Boiler was the result of a holiday-season contest that Wilkins Mechanical Services sponsored to identify the oldest working boiler in New Hampshire. The winner was Marc Palmondon of Nashua, who lives in a house that was built in the late 1800s. The original boiler, an old snowman-style steam boiler manufactured by the Richardson Boiler Co., was the only heating system the house ever had.