The earliest mention of this firm we have found is from 1907, when the Bawden Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. was registered. In 1912 the name Bawden Machine Co., Ltd. was registered. The company remained in business until at least the mid-1950s. Among their products they made a drill press, which is believed to have been made in their earlier years.

From 1916-06-29 Canadian Machinery

Bawden Machine Co. also made other items, such as fire hydrants and machinery for manufacturing pneumatic tires, but these are outside the scope of this website.

Information Sources

• 1908—Sessional Papers of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario for 1908 lists Bawden Machine & Tool Company, Limited of Toronto, with a capital of $100,000.
• 1912—From a 1912 issue of Mill Supplies comes the following snippet:

  Bawden Machine Co., Ltd., Toronto, has been incorporated with capital of $40,000. The incorporators are ...

• 1913—A 1913 edition of American Machine and Tool Record has this brief mention: "The Bawden Machine and Tool Co., Toronto, Ontario, will build a new machine shop at that place."
• 1916—Canadian Industry, Commerce, and Finance; Published as a Companion Volume to The Journal of Commerce, 1916, by J. J. Harpell: Lists Bawden Machine Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont., as a producer of drill presses; dies; bakers' and confectioners' machinery; envelope machines; rubber and glass moulds; printing presses; boiler feed pumps; steam pumps; vacuum pumps
• 1917—A 1917 edition of Iron Age has the following brief item:

  The Bawden Machine Co., 163 Sterling Road, Toronto, has commenced work on the erection of an addition to cost $5,000.

• 1921—EMF Electrical Year Book for 1921 lists "Hindley" as "Trade name for steam engines manufactured by the Bawden Machine Co., Ltd., 163-75 Sterling Road, Toronto, Ont., Can."
• 1921-1924—In 1921 and 1924 editions of The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks there are several registrations listed from this firm for tire tread designs.
• 1925-1927—Between 1925 and '27, Bawden Machine Co., Ltd., of Toronto was assigned several patents related to machinery for manufacturing pneumatic tires.
• 1920s-1940s—Manufactured fire hydrants from the 1920s to the 1940s.