In the early 1900s the Sussex Manufacturing Company of Sussex, New Brunswick, had lines of business in woodworking, machine shop and foundry work, and the building of woodworking machinery. In 1910 their woodworking machinery business became part of the newly created Canada Machinery Corp. The other companies involved in that merger were all in Southwestern Ontario.
Information on the Sussex Manufacturing Co.'s woodworking machinery is very hard to come by, as is information on the company's pre-1912 history.
Information Sources
- From a 1949 issue of Canadian Forest Industries (Vol. 69 p. 92).
[The Wallace Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of Sussex, NB] dates away back to the days of the Sussex Manufacturing Company, which carried on as general woodworkers and operated a foundry and machine shop. The latter turned out a line of woodworking machinery. In 1912, the woodworking machinery division was absorbed in the CMC amalgamation. Then, in 1918, H. W. Wallace, who had entered the employ of the Sussex company in 1908 as an apprentice pattern maker, purchased the machine shop and foundry and operated it as Wallace Machine Works, the Sussex Manufacturing Company continuing in the woodworking field. Then in 1925, Mr. Wallace formed the Wallace Manufacturing Company, taking over the Sussex and Wallace activities and it has been continued under this name ever since. Down through the passing years the business has been broadened materially. One development was the addition of a sawmill with hot pond. This mill cuts some two to four million feet of lumber a year. In addition, numerous small cuts are...
- An owwm.org forum discussion shows an early 20th century bandsaw with a brass plaque reading "Sussex Manufacturing Co. Limited / Manufacturers / Sussex / New Brunswick".
- An owwm.org forum discussion shows a planer matcher from this firm.
- An article on a New Brunswick genealogical website says, "Shortly after 1900, the ‘Sussex Woodworking and Electric Company’ and the ‘Howes Foundry and Machine Works’ amalgamated to form 'The Sussex Manufacturing Company’."