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Antique welding brass blowtorch used with gas and kerosene with wooden handle by Butler Machine Co. from Preston, ON. Vintage made in Canada collectible soldering and welding hand tools
Antique Butler Metal Products Co Brass Blow Torch
$44.00
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Butler Metal Products Co.
Butler, as a company, produced blow torches from 1939/40 until 1973(?) in Preston, Ontario, during which time they were almost certainly the main - if not the only - manufacturer of blow torches in Canada.
However, the history of Butler as a business concern spanned more than a hundred years (c1887 to 2002). It was founded by William Butler (1868 to 1936), in Hamilton, Ontario in c1887, where he was listed as machinist. He married Annie Elizabeth Hodgson (1870 to 1957) in 1893. By 1930, he was listed as president and manager of the William Butler Machine Company, at which time his wife, Annie Elizabeth, and his son William Herbert Butler (1902 to ?) are thought to have been connected with the company. William Herbert Butler married Jean Fortune Wilson (1903 to ?) in 1921, in Hamilton.
In the period following his father's death, William Herbert Butler, in c1939, relocated from Hamilton to Dolph Street (formerly Guelph Street) in Preston, Ontario, where a number of machine screw machines were acquired and Butler Stampings & Machine Screws Limited was established.
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