Welcome! 

Register :: Login
Manufacturers Index - Myers Machine Tool Corp.
History
Last Modified: Jun 5 2019 10:44AM by Jeff_Joslin
If you have information to add to this entry, please contact the Site Historian.

The Myers Machine Tool Co. was established in 1909 by Charles S. Myers. It was incorporated under that name in 1913. At some point before 1921 the business was acquired by machine tool dealer William E. Duff of York, Pa., and the business was incorporated as Myers Machine Tool Corp. The business survived until 1924 but not much longer than that.

Myers' product line was surprising diverse for such a small firm, consisting of sensitive drills, power hacksaws, engine lathes, tool grinders, buffer-polishers, arbor presses, and more.

Information Sources

  • 1913-11-03 Industrial World.
    Myers Machine Tool Company, Columbia, Pa.; $50,000; operating a foundry and general machine shop; manufacturing and selling iron and steel machine tools and machinery castings, etc. Charles S. Myers, Columbia, Pa.; Jacob R. Myers, Manor township, Lancaster county, Pa., and Martha R. Myers, Columbia, Pa.
  • 1913-11-10 Industrial World.
    Myers Machine Tool Company, Columbia, was incorporated under a Pennsylvania charter last week, with a capital of $5,000. This was subsequently increased to $50,000, on which a tax of $166.67 was paid.
  • October 1917 Condensed Catalogues of Mechanical Equipment lists Myers Machine Tool Co., Second & Chestnut Sts., Columbia, Pa., as a maker of engine lathes and of power hacksaws.
  • February 1921 Machinery.
    Myers Machine Tool Corporation, Columbia, Pa., has recently completed a new two-story factory building, 52 by 220 feet, of modern construction. With the added facilities the company will be in a position to supply lathes, drilling machines, grinders, polishing machines, arbor presses, etc., in large quantities to the trade.
  • The 1924 book Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a History, by E. M. Williams, in a biography of H. Nelson Albright.
    ...and thereafter accepted a position as bookkeeper for the Myers Machine Tool Company. This concern was originally founded by C. S. Myers in 1909, later it was taken over by William E. Duff, of York, was incorporated as the Myers Machine Tool Corporation, and in July, 1920, the present plant was erected by the new organization, Mr. Albright being given the position of general manager. The factory occupies to floors, two hundred and fifty feet long and fifty two feet wide, and employs about fifty expert men in the manufacture of high grade machine tools, lathes, drill presses, grinders, and similar articles. The plant is modern in its equipment in every respect and "Myers Tools" are known almost the world over for their superior qualities. General offices are located in Bucler building, Columbia, Pennsylvania, while sales offices are maintained in...