From September 1906 Wood Craft

This company was primarily a used machinery dealer but they also claimed to make woodworking machinery (including bandsaws) and drill presses. They were active between 1901 and 1905, and possibly for longer.

In 1904 Buffalo Tool & Machine Co. opened a branch operation in Toronto, and they contracted with a nearby machinery manufacturer, Oelschlager Brothers, to manufacture for them a carload or two of woodworking machinery. That firm turned out to be in financial difficulty and was unable to deliver. A couple of executives from Buffalo Tool & Machine ended up investing in Oelschlager Bros. to help them out, and Buffalo Tool & Machine provided advance cash as well. It was all a case of good money after bad, as Oelschlager only ever shipped about $2600 worth of machinery after they had been paid at least $6000 by Buffalo Tool & Machine. Oelschlager went under, was replaced with a new and re-capitalized business, Baden Machinery Manufacturing Co., that also went under, and it is possible that they took Buffalo Tool & Machine Co. down with them.

Information Sources

• 1900-10-04 American Machinist. "The Buffalo Tool & Machine Company, Buffalo, N. Y., was incorporated, September 25, with a capital of $15,000. Directors: Robert Bartel, Charles Hood, Frank H. Button, of Buffalo." The 1900-03-29 issue had a small ad for second-hand metal lathes from this firm. The list of machines included machines from New Haven, Lathe & Morse, and Stevens. "The abvoe will be offered en bloc at a great sacrifice. Most of the tools are in fair condition."
• 1901-04-04 The Iron Age supplement on suppliers lists this firm as a supplier of drilling machines, lathes, new and used machinery
• Listed in the 1901 issue of the New York State's Annual report of the Comptroller.
• Listed as a maker of drilling machines in the 1902 Iron Age Directory.
• The 1904 Sessional Papers—Legislature of the Province of Ontario lists Buffalo Machine and Tool Company of New York as a company that had, that year, been issued a license to do business in Ontario.
• The 1904 Annual Report of the (New York) Bureau of Factory Inspection lists Buffalo Tool and Machine Company of 176 Terrace, Buffalo.A
• Listed as a maker of general woodworking machinery in the October 1905 issue of Wood Craft.
• November 1905 Canadian Machinery & Manufacturing News. "The license to do business in the province of Ontario by the Buffalo Tool & Machine Co. has been revoked."
• The 1906-04-26 Rushford Spectator carried a classified ad from this firm: "Wanted to buy machinery. Complete iron or woodworking Plants or single Machines of any description, Engines, Boilers, Lathes, Planers, Saw Mills, in fact, any kind of Machinery, scrap iron. We wreck entire Plants, buildings. Write us fully giving details. BUFFALO TOOLS & MACHINE CO. BUFFALO, N. Y."
• September 1906 Wood Craft lists this firm as makers of saw tables.
• No patents found.