OWWM - Luther Grinder Manufacturing Co.

Manufacturers Index - Luther Grinder Manufacturing Co.

Luther Grinder Manufacturing Co.
Milwaukee, WI

History

Last Modified: Aug 5 2008 8:53PM by Jeff_Joslin
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This company is known to have been active in the 1910s and 1920s, and probably for longer. They made hand-powered bench grinders.

Information Sources

Posting to the oldwwmachines forum that mentions a grinder from this company and a 1919 newspaper ad.
1922 patent, granted to Bernard Bethke and assigned to this company, for a hand-cranked grinder.

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