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Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company
Industrymanufacturing
Founded1875 (1875)
DefunctOctober 6, 1995 (1995-10-06)
Fatedissolved
Headquarters,
Productssewing machines, go/no go gauges
Taft-Peirce gauge advertisement in American Machinist, volume 53, number 1, July 1, 1920, page 194.

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 commodified, 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. The company was dissolved on 6 October 1995.[1]

References

  1. ^ 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.