The American Saw Mill Machinery Company
 The American Saw Mill Machinery Company was founded in 1903. They were an important maker of circular sawmills and general-purpose woodworking machinery. The plant was located in Hackettstown, New Jersey near the main line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail Road. The buildings sat on six acres and included 43,000 square feet of factory floor space.
During the 1920's, they were the largest maker of circular sawmills in the United States. They eventually migrated their primary focus away from sawmills and moved towards shop machinery, including table saws, jointer and planers.
The company used another name, American Woodworking Machinery Company during the 1950's, for marketing purposes, presumably to de-emphasize their sawmill roots. 
Over the years, quite a few brand names were used by American Saw Mill. They included Champion, Climax, Clipper, Hercules, Ideal, Jewel, Lightning, Monarch, Perfection, and Royal. When the company ceased operations, the Monarch Uni-Point radial arm saw product was purchased by Northfield Foundry & Machine Co., and is still available. The Monarch 8" bench jointer was sold to American Machine & Foundry Co. (AMF), and was sold under the DeWalt label for a brief period.
Unfortunately, tooling for the other machines ended up in the Hackettstown landfill.
|
