Persons-Arter Machine Co. was in business by 1915, manufacturing surface grinders and other grinding machines. By 1957 the name had changed to Arter Grinding Machine Co.
Information Sources
- A 1915 Catalog for a "Model A 8 to 12 inch Rotary Surface Grinder" from Persons-Arter Machine Co. is in the collection at the Hagley, Museum.
- An advertisement from 1919 indicates that this firm was making rotary surface grinders.
- A publication from approximately 1957 from the "Arter Grinding Machine Company, Worcester 5, Massachusetts" (assuming this is the same company) is indicated to be a "Division of Sundstrand Machine Tool Co., Rockford, IL"
- Hitchcock's Machine Tool Cyclopedia, 1958, pg. 4B
- Machine serial numbers from 1920 to 1953 may found here