Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company
The Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company was a pioneering sewing machine company established in 1875 at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States. As the sewing machine industry gradually commoditized, Taft-Peirce leveraged its toolmaking capabilities to become a supplier of gauges, such as various kinds of go/no go gauges, to the manufacturing industries, and a supplier of engineering and toolroom work on a contract basis. The company was dissolved on 6 October 1995.[1]
| Industry | manufacturing |
|---|---|
| Fate | dissolved |
| Founded | 1875 |
| Defunct | October 6, 1995 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | sewing machines, go/no go gauges |
Taft-Peirce gauge advertisement in American Machinist, 1920.
See also
References
- Harold Kemble, Rick Stattler "Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company Records" Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division retrieved January 2012
Further reading
- Blackall, F. Steele Jr. "A History of the Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company and its Predecessor Corporations...From April 2, 1875 to the Close of World War II"
- Hall, Joseph Jr., ed. Biographical History of the Manufacturers and Businessmen of Rhode Island... (Providence: J.D. Hall, 1901), 76-77.
External links
- Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company Summary Screen State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Office of the Secretary of State, Division Of Business Services, Providence RI
- Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company Records in: Rhode Island Historical Society, Manuscripts Division
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