This company was established by 1944 and made smaller woodworking machines from 1947, or perhaps earlier. They were taken over by Toro Manufacturing Corp. in 1954, which briefly continued making the machines under the Toro brand.
Information Sources
- Robert Deatherage forwards this information he received from the Hennepin County Library:
"A review of the 1948 Minneapolis city directory lists the following: Tomlee Tool & Engineering Co., Thomas W. Donohue (sic), President-Manager, Woodworking Tool Manufacturers, 740 Washington Avenue North; in 1953 (there was no 1954 directory) the same company has Raymond C. Bluen, President, Precision Machines, 718 Washington Avenue North; in 1955 Toro Manufacturing (Power Tool Division) is listed at the latter address. A review of the Trade Catalogue Collection and the Vertical File Collection within the Minneapolis Collection turns up no additional information."
- A 1944 issue of Newsweek, available in Snippet View through Google Books, says, "No one had until Thomas W. Donohue, 30-year-old president and owner of Tomlee Tool Co..."
- Ads in Popular Mechanics and Popular Science between December 1947 and October 1953.