Founded in 1910 as a reorganization of Bickford & Washburn. The company was sold in 1917 to the Greenfield Tap & Die Co.

Information Sources

• The Massachusetts corporate registry database lists Bickford Machine Co.'s and Bickford & Washburn's first registration as 1909-03-15.
• 1909-10-07 The Iron Age, page 1076: article on the Bickford & Washburn pipe tap thread milling machine.
• American Milling Machine Builders: 1820-1920 by Kenneth L. Cope, 2007, page 27
• 1954 book History of Greenfield: Shire Town of Franklin County, Massachusetts, Volume 4, by Francis McGee Thompson. page 2052.

  BICKFORD & CARRIER, INC., 427 DAVIS STREET (A continuation of page 1,728) Manufacturers of cutters for Chase turbines, tools for army ordnance districts, machine gage holders for GTD and more recently of sporting goods items, this firm dated back to 1908 when Oramel S. Bickford opened the Bickford Machine Company on Chapman street. He made two different automatic machines and a line of special tap-making machinery. He was joined in 1915 by Partner George A. Markwell and in 1917 they sold to GTD (Greenfield Tap & Die). In 1923, Bickford again struck off for himself, this time forming O. S. Bickford & Son Company at its 1953 location. Robert Bickford and his son-in-law, Howard P. Carrier, joined him in this venture. Carrier bought a half interest in 1940 and the name became Bickford & Carrier. A tool room and a welding room were added at that time. During World War II, the plant produced aircraft electrical parts, gun mounts, aircraft wing-trimming machines, submarine jigs and fixtures, all on sub-contracts.