Millers Falls Co. is a tool manufacturing company originally based in Millers Falls, Massachusetts.
It was established in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1868 as Gunn & Amidon[1] by Levi J. Gunn and Charles H. Amidon.[2] Gunn and Amidon, along with a third partner, Henry L. Pratt built a factory in the north of Greenfield.[1] After the Greenfield factory burned down, the company was reorganized as the Millers Falls Manufacturing Co.[1] It merged with Backus Vise Co. in 1872 to form Millers Falls Co..[3]
In 1931 Millers Falls tools purchased the majority of the shares of Goodell-Pratt tools and merged with that manufacturer in 1932.[4]
In 1962 the company was acquired by Ingersoll Rand.[5]
In 1982, Ingersoll Rand sold the Millers Falls business to the newly created Millers Falls Tool Co. The company was headquartered in Alpha, New Jersey.[6] Since 2002 the company trademark has belonged to Hangzhou Great Star Industrial, of Hangzhou, China.
Publications
- The catalogue, regularly published, with issues between 1883 and 1992 on record in libraries. ,
- A complete list in miniature of Russell's world renowned scroll saw designs., 1880.
- A complete list in miniature of Wild's latest scroll saw designs, 1880.
- A complete list in miniature of Bowman's famous scroll saw designs, 1880.
- Tool practice : a treatise on the proper use and care of tools, containing information and advice of use to the mechanic, instructive and an inspiration to the apprentice, 1911.
- You and your company, 1952.
- Hand Tools, 1999.
External links
References
- Daniel P. Toomey. Massachusetts of Today: A Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Issued for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago Columbia Publishing Company, 1892^
- Chaim M. Rosenberg. Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age The University of Massachusetts Press, 2007^
- US Patent 132,791 Directory of American Tool and Machinery Parts, retrieved 2007-03-18^
- Chaim M. Rosenberg. Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age The University of Massachusetts Press, 2007^
- IR's Acquisitions Ingersoll Rand, 2005, retrieved 2007-03-18^
- United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices 12 July 2005, retrieved 2007-03-15^