the DAT says that may have been Millers Falls

Hi all,

It was definitely purchased by Millers Falls. In 1916, the Millers Falls
Company took advantage of an opportunity to "purchase outright the
stock, machinery, good will and any other assets" of the Ford Auger Bit
Company of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Production was moved to the Millers
Falls plant. The next several catalogs after the purchase contained
notice of it. The purchase put M-F into the actual manufacture of auger
bits for the first time.

Ford Auger Bit manufactured a number of different types of bits, so the
Millers Falls Company was able to offer a fairly complete line right
from the start. The Ford Auger Bit Company established its reputation on
its manufacture of Ellsworth Ford's 1891 patent for a single lip, single
twist auger bit. Single twist augers (ie. with a hollow center) hand
been around practically forever, but Ford made some improvements in
manufacture and and design. Ford's single lip bits were well-suited to
general carpentry because they cut fast and worked fairly well in wood
with grain irregularities.

There will will be a longish paragraph on Ford Auger Bit when the
expanded history section of the website for Millers Falls collectors is
released in June. It will be 1200 percent larger than the current
history section and include somewhere on the order of 60 illustratons.

I'll drop a line to the list when it goes live.

Randy Roeder               Repaint houses, not old tools.