This firm was established 1908 as D. Reynolds Machine Co., located in Rock Island, Illinois; later in that same year they moved to nearby Moline. By 1912 the name had changed to Reynolds Machine & Pattern Co., still located in Moline. In 1918, or a little earlier the name changed again to Reynolds Machine Co., located in Massillon, Ohio. The company's focus was always in automatic screw driving machines, although in 1909 they introduced a gear hobbing machine for making spur gears.
Information Sources
- 1908-12-31 The Iron Age, page 2014.
The Reynolds Machine Company, Rock Island, Ill., has removed its plant and business to Moline, Ill., where, in addition to its present line of screw driving machines, it will manufacture a hobbing spur gear cutter, which is described as one of the simplest and most nearly 'fool proof' tools of the kind ever put out.
- An ad in the September 1909 issue of Wood Craft features their upright automatic screw driving machine with magazine feed.
- Advertisement in the September 1912 issue of Wood Craft.