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Industrial Tools. Scissor Jack. Trolley Jack. Tool Kit. Hydraulic Pressure Jack. Hydraulic Jack. Wheel Chock. That arrangement was short-lived; the H. Mayhew Company of Shelburne Falls distributed most of the Goodell Brothers products—an agreement that lasted until the operation's first catalog came out. For all of Henry Goodell's talents, he was not a prolific inventor, and although his brother Dexter had invested in the operation, he appears not to have taken an active role in product development.

If the business were to grow, attention to enlarging its product line was required. A solution to the problem appeared in the form of Herbert D.

Lanfair, the thirty-four-year-old son of the Goodells' sister Anne. Lanfair worked for the nearby Millers Falls Company and had recently designed a bench stop, power hack saw and an innovative four-faced spokeshave for the firm. The drill featured a three-jaw chuck and appeared at a time when two-jaw hand drills were losing favor due to their limited ability to securely hold all but the smallest round-shanked bits.

Lanfair's chuck became the standard for the impressive line of Goodell Brothers and Goodell-Pratt hand drills that followed. Although Albert D. Goodell was no longer with the Goodell Brothers Company, he teamed up with Henry in on a project to design a two-speed breast drill. It would be their last collaborative patent project.

The brothers developed a clutch and shifter mechanism that enabled a user to change speeds by simply rotating a small adjuster nut, an improvement that not only eliminated the manual repositioning of the drive gear, but allowed speed changes with the bit still engaged in the work piece. The Goodell Brothers catalog included a promotion for the drill that featured an illustration of two elves—one happily using the new breast drill and the other struggling miserably with a competitor's product.

The Goodell Brothers elves may have been inspired by the Stanley Rule and Level Company's imp, a mischievous creature that had begun to appear in some of the firm's promotions. Although the elves were shelved after a single outing, they are notable in that they were the forerunners of Mr. Punch , the hideously ugly mascot introduced about by Goodell-Pratt, the successor to the Goodell Brothers Company.

In , Henry Goodell and Henry D. Lanfair patented a tool which the company would refer to as a reversible automatic interchangeable screw-driver. Oddly, the name didn't catch on.

The versatile tool's spiraling features could be adjusted to allow it to both drive and draw screws. The new tool was needed; managers of small-component assembly operations had been increasingly interested in reversible screwdrivers since James W. Jones and F. Howard of Belfast, Maine, patented a bi-directional spiral screwdriver in When Jones improved the patent in , other hardware producers, such as the North Brothers Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, took notice and began to develop successful variations of the tool.

Goodell and Lanfair used a pair of telescoping spirals that were controlled by a pair of lockable nuts to do the same. As other inventive tool manufacturers began to find ways of getting around the early patents, the single-rod solution came to dominate the marketplace.

When the successor to Goodell Brothers, the Goodell-Pratt Company, began adding single-rod reversible screwdrivers to its lineup, it continued to offer the telescoping tool. When William M. Pratt bought his fifty percent stake in Goodell Brothers in , the business was incorporated, and the dynamics of the enterprise began to change.

The Goodell Brothers Company began publishing a catalog and inking deals with major hardware wholesalers. As a result, sales increased. Covers of the first three Goodell Brothers catalogs, illustrated below, are courtesy of the Museum of Our Industrial Heritage, Greenfield, Massachusetts. No longer the family operation that it once had been, the opportunities for Henry Goodell's son Harry to take a leadership role in the business were becoming fewer.

On January 1, , the elder Goodell and his son sold their interest in the Goodell Brothers Company—a transaction that gave William Pratt controlling interest in the corporation. Apparently, the Goodells did well by the sale.

Goodell left the business with a "moderate fortune. Goodell stayed on for three weeks to effect a smooth transition. Before the month was out, Goodell, his son Harry and his nephew Herbert D. Lanfair noticed that cutting on the push stroke put substantial stress on the thin blades, while cutting on the pull stroke was kinder to them.

Though not a patentable feature, it was an observation that had allowed the Millers Falls Company to move forward with its successful power hacksaw. Lanfair claimed to have made a small fortune from this discovery—an assertion that was likely to have been on the colorful side. The operation may have served as a general purpose machine shop until such time as products were developed. In August , Herbert Lanfair and Henry Goodell applied for a patent for a bench hacksaw—a carriage-mounted saw suspended over a machinist's vise which could be rotated to allow for cutting a piece of stock at an angle.

The stability of the carriage mount improved the efficiency of a worker's saw strokes while the vise made for easy retention of such difficult-to-hold pieces as plumbers' stock. Save for the fact that the target stock was rotated, rather than the saw, the use of the device was similar to that of a miter box.

Henry Goodell's son Harry was suffering from consumption tuberculosis , and the environment within the shop was not conducive to his continued health.

The operation was sold to Goodell Brothers Company in September, , and the new owners began manufacturing the bench hack saw. Luey and went into partnership in the retail grocery business. Their partnership lasted about a year, but Harry's condition worsened. He died of consumption in May of , a few days short of his twenty-sixth birthday. Lanfair returned to employment with the Goodell Brothers.

Just how long Lanfair stayed with the company remains unknown. According to William F. He eventually moved on to southern California.

In April of , the month before his son's untimely death, Henry E. Goodell became the first president of the Greenfield Machine Company. A spin off Greenfield Machine was created; Henry Goodell invested and became president and plant superintendent. The new company took up space in what was known as "the Green River Shop," a location that had served as the site of a number of businesses including an earlier, and much smaller, Wells Brothers operation.

Henry Goodell remained with the Greenfield Machine Company less than a year. He cited ill health when he resigned his superintendent's position in November and the following month resigned from the board, selling his interest in the company to Edward F. Smith who became the operation's new president. Given that Goodell would be actively engaged in tool manufacture until , it is reasonable to assume that his sudden departure from Greenfield Tool was a result of grief over his son's death.

In August , Henry E. Goodell went into business with his son-in-law, Perley E. Fay, and his brother-in-law, Fred A. The men formed the Goodell Manufacturing Company, a corporation for the production of hardware specialties in which Goodell served as company president, Fay as treasurer and Gaines as clerk.

Construction soon began on a modest one-story building measuring feet by forty feet with a forty by forty basement. The new factory was located on Greenfield's West Main Street. The Goodell Boring Tool was a specialized device designed for electricians and steamfitters who worked in environments where it was necessary to bore a large number of holes in a wooden floor within a short period of time—a situation encountered by such workers as contractors constructing apartment blocks or retrofitting older structures for electricity or steam heat.

Fitted with a Clark expansive bit with two cutters, the tool could be easily adjusted to bore holes of different sizes. Goodell's boring tool may have been too specialized; it disappeared from the market within several years of its introduction. In his seminal article "Sorting out the Goodell Companies," Kenneth Cope writes that the Goodell-Pratt Company became part owner of the Goodell Manufacturing Company in and sole distributor of its tools.

For its first fourteen years, the company published its own circulars and price lists, and advertisements for the Goodell Boring Tool, the company's cut-off tool, its center punch and miter boxes appeared in trade journals directing readers to the company's Main Street address.

These tools, which defined Goodell Manufacturing's line of products, did not appear in Goodell-Pratt Company catalogs until , the year after Henry Goodell's retirement from an active role in the business. The Goodell Mfg. Company's all-steel miter box, patented by Henry E. Goodell in , was touted for the quality of its construction and its resistance to breakage. As anyone who has given a cast iron miter box hard usage might attest, careless transportation and setup can result in the destruction of its more delicate parts—especially the legs that support the table.