Lufkin (brand)
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| Product type | Tape measure |
|---|---|
| Owner | Apex Tool Group (2010) |
| Country | United States |
| Introduced | 1869 |
| Previous owners | Cooper Industries (1967) |
| Website | lufkintool |
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
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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
[edit]Throughout its history Lufkin patented a variety of devices and manufacturing processes.
- US 149321, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Improvement in Board Measures", issued April 7, 1874
- US 272279, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Headed Lumber Rule", issued February 13, 1883
- US 272892, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Machine for forming and dressing lumber-rules", issued February 27, 1883
Gallery
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The Lufkin Rule Company plant in Saginaw, Michigan as it was c.1918 -
Lufkin tape measure
References
[edit]- ^ History of Lorain County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers. 1879. p. 96. OCLC 54440022.
- ^ "(advertisement)". Popular Science. Vol. 171, no. 3. Bonnier Corporation. September 1957. p. 221. ISSN 0161-7370.
- ^ https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/lufkin-rule-building-could-be-next-heritage-structure-to-fall
- ^ https://omeka.uottawa.ca/instrument-precision/items/show/2272
- ^ Hoover's Handbook of American Business (5th ed.). Austin, Texas: Hoover's Business Press. 1995. p. 394. ISBN 978-1-878753-65-6.
External links
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- Official website
- The Lufkin Rule Company Origins, a genealogy page about Edward Taylor Lufkin at the Internet Archive
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