Vtg Meadville Vise Co 6" Jaws Heavy Duty Metal Worker Black Smith 1890's Tools!  over 100 years old   should last another few lifetimes!!!  its a chore to carry it...   comes with bolt down,  Good old usa stuff here!!!

only used that name from approx 1890-1905    some info about company below.

Advertisement from January 1899 Power Magazine

Meadville Vise Co. was in business by 1890 and made cylinder boring machines and vises. In 1905 the name was supposedly changed to Barrett Machine Tool Co., but we suspect that the business was split in two, with the vise business continuing under the Meadville Vise name. In 1910 the Meadville Vise Co. was acquired by the G. M. Yost Co. The Barrett Machine Tool Co. survived until 1955.

The relationship to the contemporaneous Barrett Vise & Tool Co. is not understood. We have also seen the name Meadville Vise & Tool Co. and we suspect this just a variant on the name Meadville Vise Co.

Information Sources

The 1890 edition of Seeger and Guernsey's Cyclopaedia of the Manufactures and Products of the United States lists Meadville Vise Co. as a maker of vises (in the subcategories carriage makers', farmers', heavy chipping, offset jaw, swivel, and woodworkers' post).

Power Magazine Jan 1899 page 60

1904-07-30 The Electrical Review.

THE REEVES ENGINE COMPANY, Trenton, N. J., is having set up at its Trenton works a mammoth boring machine, which has been made by the Meadville Vise Company, Meadville. Pa. This is said to be the largest special cylinder boring machine ever set up in the United States, and, when completed, it will accomplish a saving of from three to four hundred per cent in the time consumed in boring cylinders. The apparatus weighs thirty-five tons, and will be used in boring engine cylinders and engine frames. It is capable of boring three or four cylinders at the same time, and covers a floor space of forty-eight by ten feet, operating horizontally. James Barrett was the designer. ...

March 1905 Machinery.

The Meadvillb Vise Co., Meadville, Pa., manufacturers of the Barrett horizontal cylinder boring machines and vises, have changed their name to the Barrett Machine Tool Co.

1905-03-22 American Manufacturer and Iron World.

The Meadville Vise Company, of Meadville, Pa., manufacturers of the Barrett horizontal cylinder boring machines and vises, has changed its name to the Barrett Machine Tool company. James O. Barrett and Charles J. Barrett, who constituted the Meaville company, will continue in charge of the new company.

September 1910 The American Blacksmith.

THE G. M. YOST CO., of Meadville, Pa., recentjy purchased the entire plant and equipment of the Meadville Vise Co., of the same city. This addition to their factory will mean a greatly increased output. Readers who are interested in the purchase of a vise might do well to write to them for particulars and prices.

1913-10-30 The Iron Age: "The Barrett Machine Tool Company, Meadville, Pa., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000 by James O., Charles J., Frank N., and George W. Barrett, for the purpose of manufacturing machinery, machine tools and vises.".

1928 Industrial Directory of Pennsylvania, Volume 3 lists "Barrett Machine Tool Co., Inc., 228-30 Arch St., Meadville, Crawford [County]. They had 26 employees, all men, 5 of them in the office.

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