In the mid- to late 1960s, General Appliance Manufacturing Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, was manufacturing a circular saw (and perhaps other tools as well) for E. J. Korvette, a department store that sold "Craft King" brand power tools.

Information Sources

• A web search turned up the following trademarks registered to General Appliance Mfg. Co., Omaha, Nebr. The list is likely incomplete.
  • 727,970 (canceled). Cl. 23.
  • 744,379. Published 1962-11—13. Cl. 23.
  • 776,077. Published 1964-06-30. Cl. 23.
  • 781,309. Published 1964-09-22. Cl. 23.
  • 844,046. Published 1967-11-28. Cl. 23.
  • 892,346. (canceled). 1970-03-24. Cl. 19.
• 1965 Labor Law Reporter.

  U.S. Department of Labor, Public Contracts Division
  In re GENERAL APPLIANCE MFG. CO. et at., No. PC-959, December 16, 1964
  PUBLIC CONTRACTS ACT
  —Enforcement — Blacklist penalty

  Parkinson, Hearing Examiner: In this proceeding under the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1936 (49 Stat. 2036; 41 U. S. C. 35-45), otherwise known as the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, the respondent was charged in the complaint signed by the Under Secretary of Labor with causing and permitting employees engaged in the performance of Government contracts subject to the Act, to work in surroundings and under working conditions which were unsafe and hazardous.

  The matter came on for hearing and it was established by stipulation and testimony that National Farm Equipment Company, Inc. was the original contractor herein and that General Appliance Mfg. Co. was a substitute manufacturer, and that the conditions complained of did exist and that the Act and the Regulations thereunder were thus violated, and that because of these violations the respondents became ineligible to perform future contracts subject to the requirements of the Act unless the Secretary of Labor takes affirmative action to relieve the respondents from the ineligible list provisions, and it further appearing by notification by the representative of the Department of Labor that the hazards complained of have been completely eliminated, and based upon assurances of respondent General Appliance Mfg. Co. that it has instituted a continuing program to insure compliance with the safety and health standards of the Act and the regulation thereunder, and upon stipulation by respondent National Farm Equipment Co., Inc., that in the future it will notify any substitute manufacturer that contract involved is subject to the Act, that it will be severally liable for any liability of any substitute manufacturer for the observance of the safety and health standards of the Act, that it will notify each contracting agency that it will accept the contract on those specific terms and that in each such case it will require from each substitute manufacturer current evidence of a safety and health inspection under the Act or equivalent evidence, it is hereby REcoMMENDED : That the Secretary of Labor take the action necessary to relieve the respondents from the ineligible list provisions of Section 3 of the Act.

• 1966-07-21 Hardware Age lists brand-name holders, including "Chieftan—See General Appliance Mfg. Co. ... Samson—See General Appliance Mfg Co."
• A 1966 issue of Super Market Merchandising lists General Appliance Mfg Co 324 Howard St Omaha Nevr, as a manufacturer/supplier of lawn mowers.
• 1969 Hearings of the National Commission on Public Safety carries a notice in an appendix.

  ...It appears to us that a very serious error has been made in erroneously identifying the “Model 750 Craft King” as being a product of Aircap Manufacturing Company (the correct name is Aircap Manufacturers, Inc.) As my letter of June 20 reported when we had only the identification of the model number, we did not believe this to have been a product of Aircap. We are now advised by the buyer of E. J. Korvette Company that the machine identified by you in your testimony was purchased from General Appliance Manufacturing Company of Omaha, Nebraska. ...

  Some research suggests that Aircap Manufacturers, Inc., manufactured lawn mowers and not handheld circular saws, which is what the Model 750 Craft King is.