Also known as Cooper & Engeloh, the firm of C. & E. Mfg. Co. was established in 1913. They manufactured the Improved Fuller Foot Vise which had previously been manufactured by H. E. Fuller of Winterset, Iowa. They also manufactured wrenches and other products that are outside the scope of this Vintage Machinery website.

Information Sources

• Archived article by Todd Werts (ToolArchives.com) C. & E. Manufacturing Co.
• 1913-11-26 Western Contractor (Volume 25 No. 672) page 7.

  The C. and E. Manufacturing Co., will be incorporated at Marshalltown, Iowa. The company is organizing with $10,000 paid up capital, with four stockholders, and incorporators. A. R. Cooper was elected president of the company; and H. M. Cooper, of Sioux Falls, S. D., a brother of A. R. Cooper, secretary and treasurer. The other directors are G. S. Thompson and Fred Engeloh, both of Marshalltown. The leading specialties to be manufactured are a shingling chair and a detachable jaw wrench. A general manufacturing business will be done, specializing in dies, models, special machines, and contract manufacturing work. The shingling chair is a device on which A. R. Cooper holds the patents. It is designed to increase the output of carpenters in shingling, doing away with both scaffolding and chalk lines. The wrench is a drop forge product.

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• December 1913 Mill Supplies page 731.

  The C. & E. Manufacturing Co., Marshalltown, Ia., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000, to manufacture patented novelties, by A. R. Cooper, H. M. Cooper, F. Engeloh and G. S. Thompson.

• 1914 ads for the "Titgrip" shingling chair from C. & E. Mfg. Co. This device was said to be patented; a patent search found a closely matching patent for a shingler's chair that was invented by George A. Thomas and Conrad Heberer, both of Valeria, Iowa. Note the 1913-11-26 mention, above, that "A. R. Cooper holds the patents". This apparently meant that he had purchased the rights to the patent and not that he was the patentee.
• "A. R. Cooper" was Allyn Ranft Cooper. He and his brother founded Cooper Mfg. Co. in Marshalltown in about 1918 so that firm was in business at the same time as C. & E. Mfg. Co. The Cooper Mfg. Co. manufactured automotive specialties and by the 1940s was also making lawn mowers among other products.