Millers Falls
A Very Brief History
Millers Falls was established in 1868 as the Millers Falls Manufacturing Co. Early products included bit braces and wooden handle tool holders with interchangeable bits. Over the years they also made shop machines, including table saws, scroll saws, lathes, drill presses, sanders, and bench grinders, as well as popular lines of hand tools such as planes and eggbeater drills. Hand planes were not introduced until 1929.
In 1872, Millers Falls Manufacturing Co. merged with the Backus Vise Company to form the Millers Falls Company.
In 1931, the Goodell-Pratt Co. merged with the Millers Falls Co. The Goodell-Pratt Company was originally established as the Goodell Brothers in 1888 by two former employees of Millers Falls, Albert D. Goodell and Henry E. Goodell. The merger brought Goodell-Pratt’s high quality drills, calipers, braces, and levels to Millers Falls.
In 1962 the company was acquired by Ingersoll-Rand Corp. In the mid-1970s they announced their intentions to move out of the state of Massachusetts. Eager to incent them to stay, the state responded with a package of tax incentives, bonds, loans, and wage cuts that funded a new plant in Deerfield, MA in 1978. In 1982, Ingersoll-Rand sold the Millers Falls business to the newly-created Millers Falls Tool Co., headquartered in Alpha, NJ.
For a complete and thorough account of the Millers Falls company history and products, please refer to Randy Roeder’s definitive Millers Falls website.
Plane Specification Charts
Millers Falls Bench Plane Chart
Millers Falls Block Plane Chart
Cross Reference Chart
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I’m trying to find an old arbor for a bench grinder it looks to be a 1/2 or a 9/16 shaft with 2 sides for attachments. It also has a pulley inthe middle for a separate motor. This arbor has 4 holes in its base to bolt down to a table.
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I have no idea where to find one, but perhaps another reader will.
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I love to find the Goodall Pratt or Millers Falls hand drills at garage sales. I can often find one or two a year.
check our a picture of the few hand drills I have. Millers Falls Hand Drills
Michael
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I was given an anvil 15 years ago which has the company’s name and it has that it was ( PAT. JULY 29, 1878 ). Just want to know if this anvil was made at this company ?
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Millers Falls made a vice with the patent date July 29, 1879. I’m assuming yours is stamped with that date, not 1878.
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I have acquired this odd little Miller Falls Co. drill press in working condition It looks like a drill mounted on a press works but it’s not, The drill looking head was specifically manufactured to fit on a gear housing that powers the drill chuck. I really like this little odd ball. I call it odd ball because I can’t find a pic of another on anywhere. I think it’s pretty cool. If anyone knows anything about this thing, I would sure like to hear about it.
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