From about 1920 until about 1946 this firm made handheld power tools and electric motors. In 1930 DeWalt Products Corp. acquired the rights to their worm drive handheld saws and combination mortiser and router.

Information Sources

• 1921 EMF Yearbook
• Seen in an owwm.org forum discussion: a brass plaque for a "DeWalt Wodack Electric Saw". This was presumably on a handheld power saw.
• Snippet from a 1930 issue of American Builder.

  DeWalt Acquires Wodack Saw
  The De Walt Productions Corporation of Lancaster, Pa., announces that it has acquired the Wodack electric hand saw, one of the pioneers in the electric hand saw field, and the Wodack electric combination mortiser and router. These new products will be distributed through a national sales organization.

• Snippet from a 1930 issue of American Lumberman.

  Lancaster, Pa., April 21.—Acquisition of patent rights in the Wodack electric hand saw and the Wodack electric combination mortiser and router by the DeWalt Products Corporation has just been announced, and in the future this equipment will be manufactured at the company's plant here, along with the DeWalt "Wonder-Worker" and other high-speed electrical equipment for cutting wood, metal and stone. The DeWalt engineering staff and manufacturing advantages are now available for the...