Vlchek Tool Company | |
Foundation: | 1894 |
Fate: | purchased |
Defunct: | 1958 |
Successor: | Pendleton Tool Industries Co. |
Location: | 3001 East 87th Street, Cleveland, Ohio |
Key People: | Frank J. Vlchek |
Industry: | Manufacturing |
Products: | Hand tools |
Vlchek Tool Company was a hand tool manufacturer. Vlchek originally made and sharpened tools for stonecutters and masons, and later made tools for automobiles and for agriculture machinery.
Vlchek Tool Company was founded as a blacksmith shop in 1894 in Cleveland, Ohio by Frank J. Vlchek.[1] It was incorporated in 1909.
In 1958 Pendleton Tool Industries Co. bought the Vlchek Tool Company.[2] In 1964 Pendleton itself merged with Ingersoll-Rand. In 1969 Ingersoll closed Vlchek's plant on East 87th Street in Cleveland.