This company is known to have made a wood sawing machine intended for farm use. They also made "Woodpecker" gas engines. The business was acquired by the owners of Willard Press & Tool Co., who merged the two businesses to create the Willard-Middletown Machine Co., which listed to 1921 or a little later

Information Sources

• 1906 book Middletown in Black and White has a biography of this firm.

  Middletown Machine Company.

  One of the most successful enterprises in Middletown and one that has expanded from a small beginning to a large business employing many skilled workmen and occupying large buildings especially adapted to the requirements of building the Miami and Woodpecker gasoline engines, is that of the Middletown Machine Co., whose office and plant are located in the eastern part of the city. The buildings stand on a property consisting of four acres, with switch facilities giving them shipping connections with the Pennsylvania R. R., Big Four, C., H. & D. and the Pere Marquette R. R. This business was established fifteen years ago, and has grown to one of large extent and influence in the trade. The company are manufacturers of Miami and Woodpecker gas and gasoline engines, which they market from Maine to California, and from the lakes to the gulf, and there is scarcely any community that is not familiar with the phrase, "Woodpecker, Middletown, Ohio." The Woodpecker gas and gasoline engines as turned out by the Middletown Machine Co. stand without a rival on the market today, and are sold under the following guarantees: To save money over steam engine, tread power, or sweep power; to use less fuel, to need less repairs, to start easier, to be a cheaper investment, to run steadier, to need less attention, to give less trouble, to give more power and to cost less for upkeep, than any other engine made; to be more satisfactory and to please, speaking volumes for the standard of their goods. Their sure-spark igniting apparatus, close regulating centrifugal governor, fool-proof safety mixer, simplified oiling device, and "anti-run-away" exhaust locking shoe, make the Woodpecker the most satisfactory engine on the market. The company have a daily capacity of six finished engines, with a total to the year of 1,800, employ sixty mechanics, and dispense $40,000 annually to their pay roll. Harry H. Wilson is president of the company; Charles W. Kerr, secretary, and C. E. Miller, superintendent.

• From the Seventh Annual Cooperative Tractor Catalog, 1922, this firm is listed as a maker of "wood sawing machines".