Wednesday, June 26, 2024

We used to make things in this country, #362 Ker & Goodwin Machine Co.

 
   The company was founded in 1897 in Brantford Ontario, by John Ker and Abraham Goodwin to manufacture lathe chucks, face plate jaws, and all-steel chucks. 
 After WW1 the company re-organized as Ker & Goodwin Machinery Co., Ltd. and along with the lathe accessories, began making oil engines under the "Hvid" Patent. The Hvid engine is a compression-ignition engine which used a low pressure injecting system, likely to separate itself from Rudolf Diesel's engines and patents,
 Abraham Goodwin’s son took over after he died in 1946 and reorganized as the Goodwin Chuck Company Ltd. in 1951. It was last listed in a Brantford directory in 1973.




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