Greenfield, Massachusetts · 1899–1931 (brand used by Millers Falls until 1948)
Goodell-Pratt grew out of the Goodell Brothers Company, a maker of carpenters' and mechanics' tools. William M. Pratt bought half of it in 1895, took control in 1898, and in February 1899 the board renamed it the Goodell-Pratt Company. Pratt expanded fast. He started the Massachusetts Tool Company in 1900 for machinists' tools, bought Coffin & Leighton rules, Lavigne micrometers, Richardson iron levels and the Stratton Level Company, and by 1929 ran three factories with a line of about 1,500 tools, from hand and breast drills to bit braces, push drills and spiral screwdrivers. The Depression hit hard. The stock fell to fifty cents a share, Millers Falls forced a merger in 1931, and it kept using the Goodell-Pratt name on some tools until 1948.
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Catalog drawings show GOODELL-PRATT CO. and GREENFIELD, MASS. marked on the tools, and the company titled its catalogs Toolsmiths. Its marking gauges are nickel-plated roller gauges with round steel beams, not wooden gauges.