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Also in 1960, B&D acquired the rights to the panel saws of Richard C. In 1960 B&D acquired the DeWalt business from American Machine & Foundry Co.
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In 1936, Black & Decker became a publicly traded company with a listing on the NYSE. of Cleveland, makers of fractional-horsepower electric motors. In 1929 B&D acquired Domestic Electric Co. B&D continued making these products under the Van Dorn name until the early 1950s. In 1928, Black & Decker acquired Van Dorn Electric Tool Co., makers of bench grinders as well as valve and valve-seat grinders.
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In 1931 the rights to the Marschke line of grinders and buffers were sold to Vonnegut Moulder Corp. of Indianapolis, makers of grinding machinery, especially bench grinders Marschke's operations were soon relocated to Townson. In 1926 B&D acquired Marschke Manufacturing Co. In 1920 when B&D moved all their operations to Towson, their Baltimore factory operations were sold to the Dieffenbach Westendorf Manufacturing Co. There were also numerous changes related to other product lines which included kitchen appliances, hardware, plumbing supplies, etc.ī&D opened their first factory in 1917, in Towson, and quickly expanded to Baltimore as well. This section summarizes those changes that are relevant to the products we are interested in. Acquisitions and Divestmentsīlack & Decker would survive two world wars, steady technological advancement, and ever-changing competition with a strategy of diversification and acquisitions. Over the years, primarily through acquisitions, they began making numerous other products that are also within the scope of this site, including radial arm saws, bench and pedestal grinders, drill presses, tablesaws, and fractional horsepower electric motors. This innovation was one of the most important in creating the modern handheld drill.īlack & Decker were early innovators in handheld power tools. By 1916 they were working on designing handheld electric drills-an item that with the development of small but powerful electric motors, was rapidly becoming very popular-culminating in 1917 patents granted to the two men for drill gearing and for the first trigger switch for a pistol-style handheld drill. They began as a general machine shop and they also designed and built custom machinery for manufacturing. The Black & Decker Manufacturing Company was established in 1909 by Samuel Duncan Black and Alonzo Galloway Decker of Baltimore.