Lufkin (brand)

For the manufacturer of heavy equipment in Lufkin, Texas, see Lufkin Industries.

Lufkin
Early Lufkin logo
Product type	Tape measure
Owner	Apex Tool Group (2010)
Country	United States
Introduced	1869
Previous owners	Cooper Industries (1967)
Website	lufkintool.com

Lufkin is a brand featuring primarily measurement tools such as calipers, gauges, micrometers, and measuring tapes. Lufkin is a brand of Apex Tool Group.

History

The company was founded by Edward Taylor Lufkin, an American Civil War veteran of the Sixtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry^[1] in Cleveland, Ohio 1869^[2] and was originally named E.T. Lufkin Board and Log Rule Manufacturing Company. Its Canada-based plant was in Barrie, Ontario.

The company was acquired in 1967 by Cooper Industries.^[3]

Innovations

Throughout its history Lufkin patented a variety of devices and manufacturing processes.

US 149321, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Improvement in Board Measures", issued April 7, 1874
US 272279, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Headed Lumber Rule", issued February 13, 1883
US 272892, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Machine for forming and dressing lumber-rules", issued February 27, 1883

Gallery

The Lufkin Rule Company plant in Saginaw, Michigan as it was c.1918
Lufkin tape measure

References

↑ "History of Lorain County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers". Philadelphia: Williams Brothers. 1879: 96. OCLC 54440022.
↑ "(advertisement)". Popular Science (Bonnier Corporation) 171 (3): 221. September 1957. ISSN 0161-7370.
↑ Hoover's Handbook of American Business (5th ed.). Austin, Texas: Hoover's Business Press. 1995. p. 394. ISBN 978-1-878753-65-6.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lufkin (brand).

Official website
The Lufkin Rule Company Origins, a genealogy page about Edward Taylor Lufkin at the Internet Archive

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