Active between the 1880s and about 1931, Bagshaw & Field manufactured foot-powered metalworking lathes ca 1905. They also manufactured items not within the scope of this Vintage Machinery website, including knives, countersinks, spokeshaves and policemen's noise-makers. The partners in this business were Walter Bagshaw and Albert R. Field.
Information Sources
- 1900 Boyd's partnership and Residence Business Directory of Philadelphia lists "Bagshaw & Field (Walter Bagshaw and Albert
R Field), tools, r 220 N 2d".
- 1909 Hendricks' Commercial Register of the United States lists Bagshaw & Field, 317 Cherry, Phila., as makers/providers of engine lathes and foot power lathes.
- January 1913 Hardware Dealers' Magazine lists Bagshaw & Field, 445 No. 5th St., Philadelphia, as providers of center bits; screw driver bits; box chisels; cape chisels; cold chisels; star drills; box, cotton and hay hooks; oyster knives; tack pullers; punches; reamers; screw drivers; spoke shaves; and "lath tools" [sic].
- American Foot Power and Hand Power Machinery by Kenneth L. Cope, 2001 page 8.