![]() In 1942, Marshall Field and partners sold it to Timken Detroit Axle Co., part of an early conglomerate controlled by Willard Rockwell. 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). About the same time Rockwell also purchased Crescent Machine Co. Delta Manufacturing became Rockwell's Delta Power Tool Division. Shortly thereafter, Delta tools were labeled Delta Rockwell. In late 1945 or early '46, Rockwell purchased Arcade Manufacturing Co. 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 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. It appears that the saws and their motors were manufactured for Rockwell by A. Smith Corp., which had already been making motors for Rockwell, and possibly for Delta before the purchase by Rockwell. 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. In 1956 Rockwell/Delta purchased Walker Turner. ![]()
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