1897

      Milo Peck & Co. are the manufacturers of Peck’s Patent Drop Press, which has been elsewhere alluded to in this volume. The first Press made under this patent is now in use in Cowles & Co.’s extensive manufactory of carriage-hardware and stove ornaments. Messrs. Peck & Co. also manufacture power and foot Cutting Presses, and a variety of special and patented articles, some of them of their own invention, as for instance Peck’s Patent Atmospheric Forge Hammers.

      The Miner & Peck Manufacturing Co. was established in 1850 by his father under the name of Milo Peck. At the death of his father in 1876, Mr. George W. Peck assumed active managership and continued as manager until his death. During his lifetime the concern was renamed Milo Peck and Company, Beecher and Peck, and the Miner and Peck Manufacturing Company.

      In November, 1920, the company was purchased by the Birmingham Iron Foundry and removed to their plant at Derby, Conn., Mr. Peck being installed as manager, and the company retaining its name of the Miner and Peck Manufacturing Company. The large works and facilities of the purchasing company, together with its engineering staff working in co-operation, greatly increased the capacity of the Miner and Peck Manufacturing Company.

      Mr. Peck in his years as manager had continually developed the design of the "Peck" Drop Press and the "Peck" Automatic Lifter which was his father's invention.

Information Sources

• A history of American manufactures, from 1608 to 1860, V2, 1864 page 516
• The Metal Industry, V20, Mar 1922 page 123