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McKaig-Hatch was a tool manufacturer for the automotive industry. The company, based out of Buffalo, New York made economy tools, and produced and supplied the screwdriver, pliers, and open-end wrenches in the pouch tool kits supplied with new Ford and GM cars from the 1930s through the 1950s.

McKaig-Hatch was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1913 by Archibald McKaig, Harry C. Young, and Chauncey R. Hatch. McKaig-Hatch became a division of Tasa Coal Company, which later became Tasa Corporation.

• Advertisement for McKaig-Hatch tools published in the April 1921 issue of Forging and Heat Treating

See also

• List of defunct consumer brands

References

1. ^ Motor World Wholesale, Volume 37, No. 2, New York, NY: Chilton Company, October 2, 1913, p. 34
2. Iron Age, Volume 92, New York, NY: David Williams Company, October 2, 1913, p. 754

External links

• McKaig-Hatch, Inc. details

• Defunct consumer brands
• Defunct companies based in New York (state)
• Tool manufacturing companies of the United States
• Automotive tool manufacturers
• Manufacturing companies based in New York (state)