The E. A. Eddy Machinery Co. was a Providence-based manufacturer and dealer specializing in tools and machinery for jewelers and silversmiths. They were established in about 1900, changing name to the E. A. Eddy Machine Co. in 1925 following the death of owner Eugene A. Eddy. It seems that from that time onwards they were exclusively a dealer and not a manufacturer; that business survived until about 1960.

Among their products the E. A. Eddy Machinery Co. made jewelers lathes. Information on their products is surprisingly sparse.

Information Sources

• A 1909 edition of Brass World and Platers' Guide.

  The machinery of the Miller, Fuller and Whiting Co., of North Attleboro, Mass., manufacturing jewelers, was recently purchased by the E. A. Eddy Machinery Co. of Providence, R. I., at auction sale.

• The 1918 2nd quarter The Cumulative Daily Digest of Corporation News.

  Metal Products Corp., Providence, R. I. ... PLANT SOLD.—Receivers of Corp. have sold the plant to the E. A. Eddy Machinery Co. for $51,250. Creditors of Corp. are to be paid in full. Bost Even. Trans., May 25, P. 3, part 2.

• The 1919 Providence Directory and Rhode Island Business Directory lists "[Eddy] E A Machinery Co (Eugene A Eddy) 245 Eddy and 68 Clifford".
• December 1920 Metal Industry.

  The three-story brick building extending from West Exchange street to Aborn street, known as the "Cove Street Machine Shop," has been purchased by Eugene A. Eddy, of the E. A. Eddy Machinery Company. The building is 170 feet long and 45 feet wide and is assessed at $33,346.

• November and December 1921 American Tool and Machinery Record carried the identical news item.

  C. C. Carter Machinery Co., Providence, R. I., has opened quarters at 36 Garnet street to deal in new and used machine tools, transmission and supplies. C. C. Carter is manager and Earl A. Adams, treasurer of the company. For the past 8 years Mr. Carter was associated with the E. A. Eddy Machinery Co., Providence, and previous to that with Thomas & Lowe.

• 1922-04-06 issue of Machinery has an ad from E. A. Eddy Machinery for used metalworking machinery—planers, shapers, lathes, milling machines, drilling machines. The company address was 211 Eddy Street.
• 1922-05-03 The Jewelers' Circular page 108d.

  The Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. last Tuesday sold to Eugene A. Eddy, of the E. A. Eddy Machine Co., the property at the southerly corner of Eddy and Clifford Sts., including land and buildings. The revenue stamps attached to the deed indicate that the purchase price was approximately $25,000. At the same time a mortgage for $35,000 was taken on the property by the trust company from the new owner.

• 1922-11-15 Jewelers' Circular.

  The E. A. Eddy Co. purchased the tools, machinery, etc., in the plant of the Kescot Mfg. Co. for $4,800 last week, when it was sold at auction by the receiver.

• 1923-01-17 Jewelers' Circular.

  The receiver of George W. Dover, Inc., has sold the machinery from that company's plant to the E. A. Eddy Machinery Co., which is disposing of it in small lots.

• 1925-02-26 Iron Trade Review, page 609.

  E. A. Eddy Machine Co., Providence, R. I., has been formed to take over the business conducted by the late E. A. Eddy in new and used machinery. L. M. Lincoln is president and general manager and Rosanna Eddy secretary and treasurer.

• The 1926 edition of American Biography has a bio of E. A. Eddy. "...were very prominent in the machinery business thirty years ago. About 1900, Mr. Eddy opened an office in the Industrial Trust Company Building and established the E. A. Eddy Machinery Company, making the handling of jewelry machinery his special..."
• 1928-29 issues of Popular Mechanics have advertisements for South Bend lathes that list among their dealers, "PROVIDENCE R.I.—The E. A. Eddy Mach. Co., Eddy & Clifford Sts."
• A 1931 issue of Industry Week has the following snippet: "E. A. Eddy Machinery Co. 'Inc., Providence, R. I., under its recent reorganization, has elected the following officers: Louis M. Lincoln, president and treasurer; Joseph E. McCrudden, secretary, and William J. Hatten, director, the officers ..."
• The 1940 book by Calm Morrison Hoke, Refining Precious Metal Wastes, lists "dealers in special equipment and machinery", including "E. A. Eddy Machinery Co., (jewelry factory machinery,) 211 Eddy St., Providence, R. I."
• The 1957 edition of Poor's Register of Directors and Executives, United States and Canada mentions E. A. Eddy Machinery Co.
• A Practical Machinist discussion makes some connections between this maker's lathes and those of other Providence and Warren makers, including E. B. Bosworth and E. A. Adams, as does The lathes.co.uk page on E. A. Adams.