Included in the roll out were the No. While most of the items were fitted with handles and knobs made of an opaque red plastic known as tenite , some, such as the No.
The new products were a radical departure from anything that the Millers Falls Company had attempted in the past. A pair of independent industrial designers was brought on board to develop the tools. The No. He was responsible for the lever-action, highly styled No. Garth Huxtable , a New York designer who had just opened his own office.
The work of the two free-lancers proved an inspiration for Robert W. At the time that the new designs were being developed, the company also began to use red tenite for some of its more traditional tools.
A ratchet brace of intermediate quality, the No. The screwdriver set introduced transparent red tenite to the line. The company also began replacing permaloid components with transparent tenite when it changed the handle of the No. While tools such as these took advantage of the new plastic that had become available, they remained products of an earlier paradigm. The company continued experimenting with non-traditional designs throughout the s. Manufactured with a reversible handle which could be positioned for either planing or filing, the No.
Other noteworthy Garth Huxtable designs from this later period are the No. The handles of these tools were manufactured of gray-enameled die cast rather than tenite, but the general aesthetic was the same. The crisply-designed tools manufactured by Millers Falls Company during this era have collectively become known as Buck Rogers tools, an appellation derived from the similarity of the handles on the bench planes to those commonly seen on toy space guns. Garth Huxtable did much of the design work.
The Millers Falls Company plants were non-union shops until the mids. Rogers was old school, practicing a type of management that labor historians refer to as paternalism. He knew the names and family circumstances of virtually all his workers, was proud of the importance of the company to the community and was willing to take a substantial hit to the bottom line in order to avoid layoffs.
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