Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company Explained

Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company
Fate:	dissolved
Location City:	Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Location Country:	United States
Industry:	manufacturing
Products:	sewing machines, go/no go gauges

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]

See also

• List of sewing machine brands

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

Notes and References

1. Harold Kemble, Rick Stattler "Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company Records" Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division retrieved January 2012