Lufkin is a brand featuring primarily measurement tools such as calipers, gauges, micrometers, and measuring tapes. Lufkin is a brand of Apex Tool Group.
History
The company was founded by Edward Taylor Lufkin, an American Civil War veteran of the Sixtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry[1] in Cleveland, Ohio, 1869[2] and was originally named E.T. Lufkin Board and Log Rule Manufacturing Company. Its Canadian manufacturing plant was first at Windsor, Ontario around 1907 and later at Barrie, Ontario around 1948.[3][4] The company's headquarters and chief U.S. manufacturing plant later moved to Saginaw, Michigan, and remained there for decades.
The company was acquired in 1967 by Cooper Industries,[5] which aimed to create a stable of hand tools brands through acquisitions. The Saginaw plant was soon closed and a new plant in Apex, North Carolina became the chief U.S. manufacturing plant.
The brand was a member of the Cooper Tools group until that group was sold off to form Apex Tool Group in 2012 and Cooper Industries was acquired by Eaton Corporation.
Innovations
Throughout its history Lufkin patented a variety of devices and manufacturing processes.
Gallery
External links
- The Lufkin Rule Company Origins, a genealogy page about Edward Taylor Lufkin at the Internet Archive
References
- History of Lorain County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers Williams Brothers, 1879^
- (advertisement) Popular Science, Bonnier Corporation, September 1957^
- Lufkin Rule building could be next heritage structure to fall Windsor Star, 2017-04-19, retrieved 2025-09-14^
- Lufkin Rule Co. of Canada www.omeka.uottawa.ca, retrieved 2025-09-14^
- Hoover's Handbook of American Business Hoover's Business Press, 1995^