In the late 1920s Waco Tool Works made home shop machinery. This firm seems to be the same as Up-To-Date Machine Works, offering identical machines at about the same time out of the same address. One version used a detachable portable master drill motor which could be fitted with a drill chuck.
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| From July 1928 Popular Mechanics |
Information Sources
- Ad in Jan 1929 Popular Science for "Red Jacket home workshop": bandsaw, lathe, tilt-top bench saw, scrollsaw.
- Jul-Aug 1928 Popular Mechanics ads are the same.
- No patents found.
- Trademark (for "Mixinette"): "Waco Tool Works, Inc., Chicago, Ill. Electric mixing bowl and egg beater, dough-kneading hook, etc. 257,356. June 4; Serial No. 277,687; published Mar. 26, 1929. Class 23." Current U.S. S/N is 60257356. No other records found.
- We learned of the connection to Up-To-Date Machine Works from an owwm.org forum discussion.