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Article: Nearly a century of progress for Mills Machine.(2003 Manufacturer Spotlight)
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- National Driller
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Ninety-five plus years of business in the same family indicates that something has been going right along the way. Mills Machine has been doing the right thing since being founded in 1908.The company is built on a line of strong people and a history of innovation.
Mills Machine Co. has had a variety of names in the past 95 years--Mills General Repair Shop, Mills and Crites General Repair and Bicycle Shop, Mills Brothers General Repair and Gun Shop, Mills and Thompson Repair Shop and finally Mills Machine Co.
At the end of the Civil War, Samuel and Lucinda Mills were making a meager living in Bowling Green, Ky. Looking for greener pastures, they left in a ...