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The Mead Corporation purchased Stanley Furniture in 1969 and maintained ownership of the company for 10 years. In 1979, Stanley Furniture became part of several leveraged buyouts until, finally, in the late 1980s, Stanley Furniture reemerged as a wholly owned, private entity. [4] In 1988, Albert Prillaman was named chairman, CEO and president ...
The Stanley No. 1 Odd Jobs was a tool produced by the Stanley Works from 1888 to the 1930s. [1] It combined features of sundry tools, in a single pocketable tool, including: Try square; Mitre square; T-square; Marking gauge; Mortise gauge; Depth gauge; Mitre level; Spirit level and plumb; Beam compass; Inside square
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Thomas Bahnson Stanley (July 16, 1890 – July 10, 1970) was an American politician, furniture manufacturer and Holstein cattle breeder. [1] A Democrat and member of the Byrd Organization, Stanley served in a number of different political offices in Virginia, including as the 47th speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates and as the Commonwealth's 57th governor.
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., formerly known as The Stanley Works, is a Fortune 500 American manufacturer of industrial tools and household hardware, and a provider of security products. Headquartered in the Greater Hartford city of New Britain, Connecticut , [ 3 ] Stanley Black & Decker is the result of the merger of The Stanley Works and ...
Stanley advertising, showing Bailey's plane designs Leonard Bailey (May 8, 1825 in Hollis, New Hampshire – February 5, 1905 in New York City ) was a toolmaker and cabinet maker from Massachusetts , United States, who in the mid-to-late nineteenth century patented several features of woodworking equipment.
Stanley is a well known brand of tools and has produced millions of hand planes, saws, rulers, try squares, chisels, screwdrivers, and many other types of tools for consumer and for industrial use. Their innovations include the Bailey plane, the Surform shaper , the PowerLock tape measure , the utility knife , and an unusual multitool known as ...
Stanley Webb Davies, pictured in 1935. Stanley Webb Davies (1894–1978) was one of Great Britain's premier makers of Arts and Crafts furniture from his workshop in Windermere in the Lake District. Stanley was born in Darwen, Lancashire, into a wealthy mill-owning family of Quakers.