On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:19:21 -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote:
In article , dpb
wrote:
Robert Bonomi wrote:
In article , dpb
wrote:
Phisherman wrote:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:24:47 -0800 (PST), GROVER
wrote:
On Dec 30, 7:07 am, Phisherman wrote:
I broke my vintage Goodell 22 1-1/4" 22 E putty knife while
removing some old brick molding around a door. It has a full tang
and comfortable molded plastic handle. Who makes or owns Goodell?
Looking where to buy.
Try Goodell Tools Inc.
Fax #: 763-531-0252
http://www.goodelltools.com
Joe G
Bad link?
Looks like either Goodell has gone under or been bought out, maybe???
Or, I suppose the server could be out for maintenance over the
holiday week but I could find only one distributor that had anything
of theirs in stock and it was just a couple of taping knives.
It's not the web-server. it is the domain-name itself that fails. No
registration data whatsoever. So it's been 'gone' for a while.
History -- Goodell Tool mreged with Goodell-Pratt, back in the 1920s.
Subsequent history shows they're part of Miller Falls.
I think that's the brother(? at least a different person) -- pretty sure
if they had gone away in the '20s there wouldn't have _ever_ been a
domain name... 
There were only FIVE Goodell brothers, and a whole bunch of company
names. It was a somewhat incestuous situation. One of the Goodells
would leave a 'family' company, to start his own operation, and a couple
of decades later the 'upstart' would get bought up by /merged into one
of the long- standing 'Goodell' companies. "Can't tell the players w/o
a scorecard" is apt.
One of the OP's questions was "who owns them". Thus the Goodell-Pratt
and Miller Falls info
The brand stayed around _long_ after Goodell Tool-Goodell-Pratt, and
after Goodell-Pratt-Miller Falls
I'm guessing Miller Falls has finally dropped the line. BUT, Miller
Falls may have similar product under one of their other labels.
Miller Falls is kaput and has been for some time. They became a
subsidiary of Ingersol-Rand who sold them in 1982. Their remaining stock
was purchased by someone else later on and the company ceased to exist.
--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw