McKaig-Hatch

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McKaig-Hatch, Inc.
Industry Manufacturing
Founded 1913[1]
Headquarters 1584-1590 Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York[1]
Key people Archibald McKaig, President; Harry C. Young, Vice-President, and Chauncey R. Hatch Secretary and Treasurer[1] [2]
Products Hand tools

McKaig-Hatch was a tool manufacturer for the automotive industry. The company, based out of Buffalo, New York made economy tools, and produced and supplied the screwdriver, pliers, and open-end wrenches in the pouch tool kits supplied with new Ford and GM cars from the 1930s through the 1950s.

McKaig-Hatch was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1913 by Archibald McKaig, Harry C. Young, and Chauncey R. Hatch.[1] McKaig-Hatch became a division of Tasa Coal Company, which later became Tasa Corporation.

Advertisement for McKaig-Hatch tools published in the April 1921 issue of Forging and Heat Treating

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Motor World Wholesale, Volume 37, No. 2, New York, NY: Chilton Company, October 2, 1913, p. 34 
  2. ↑ Iron Age, Volume 92, New York, NY: David Williams Company, October 2, 1913, p. 754 

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