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In 1963 Rockwell/Delta purchased Buckeye Tool Co., maker of pneumatic tools. In 1961 Rockwell/Delta purchased an 18" wood planer from Yates-American. In 1960 Rockwell/Delta purchased Porter-Cable Machine Co. In 1956 Rockwell/Delta purchased Walker Turner. In 1953 Rockwell/Delta purchased the Callander Foundry and Manufacturing Co., a Canadian company that made the Beaver Power Tools line that dominated the Canadian hobbyist market. Smith Corp., which had already been making motors for Rockwell, and possibly for Delta before the purchase by Rockwell. It appears that the saws and their motors were manufactured for Rockwell by A. In 1948, Rockwell/Delta purchased Red Star Products, Inc., makers of a line of turret-arm radial arm saws that competed well against DeWalt radial arm saws. although both Arcade and Rockwell/Delta had a "Homecraft" line of machinery, none of Arcade's Homecraft designs were ever sold by Rockwell/Delta they did, however, use Arcade's foundry and machining facilities. In late 1945 or early '46, Rockwell purchased Arcade Manufacturing Co. Shortly thereafter, Delta tools were labeled Delta Rockwell. Delta Manufacturing became Rockwell's Delta Power Tool Division. About the same time Rockwell also purchased Crescent Machine Co. In 1945, Delta was sold to Rockwell Manufacturing Co., originally known as Pittsburgh Equitable Meter and Manufacturing Company created in 1927 by the merger of two meter companies (which relocated to Brooklyn in 1941). In 1942, Marshall Field and partners sold it to Timken Detroit Axle Co., part of an early conglomerate controlled by Willard Rockwell. Tauco label from a scroll saw that was exported to South Africa We are uncertain of the ownership of Tauco and it is possible that it existed before the 1939 Marshall Field buyout. The Delta name was difficult to trademark in other jurisdictions so the Tauco name was used instead.
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Campbell Stuckeman Tautz went on to run TAUCO Export Corp., which rebadged and sold Delta products overseas. In 1939, Tautz sold the company to a partnership consisting of Marshall Field, Charles G. A Period of Ownership Changes and Acquisitions as "a subsidiary of Delta Manufacturing Co." In early 1932 the "Delta Specialty Co." name was dropped. Beginning in 1929, Tautz started identifying Delta Specialty Co.
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In the late 1920s and into the early '30s, Delta rebadged a 12" bandsaw made by Heston & Anderson. The saws were sold through a subsidiary, Delta Specialty Co., and wore the "Delta Specialty Co." name. In 1923 he started manufacturing a small scrollsaw based on a design licensed from its inventor, Carl Moberg. In 1919, Herb Tautz started Delta Manufacturing Company in his garage. Nowadays, the Unisaw and Powermatic models are still market leaders but most tool hounds would agree that each brand’s no-nonsense, all cast iron and steel, 500-pound-plus models from a lifetime ago are often preferred over today’s state-0f-the-art models.From the early 1920s, Delta Specialty Co.'s "American Boy" scroll saw. I just had to have one.ĭelta introduced the world’s first tilting-arbor cabinet saw in 1939 with its fully-enclosed steel cabinet and polished cast iron top. After leading the market for decades, the mid 1960s and 1970s brought the Powermatic Model 66 table saw into a neck-and-neck position with the Unisaw, boasting the heaviest trunnion assembly (table saw guts) and virtually vibration-free operation. So, when I told my wife I was buying a really old table saw when I already had the top-of-the-line, “last table saw I’ll ever need to buy” table saw already sitting in the shop, she avoided eye contact with me for a month. Every passionate woodworker knows that the early model Delta Unisaws are legendary workhorses and the grandfather of all modern-day saws.