Okay what would you pay for a okay looking 1629.You can even make out the name Skilsaw on the bar.Well come to think of it I guess it could be a newer bar.I ran across one for sale.
Lawrence
I have about 4 sitting in the museum....the tan one and a yellow one....got them for free..just had to pick them up.....they are made by PM based on their model 340.
You can probably get them at a yard sale for $5 since they were mass produced before Skill took over the PM company.
They came into different brand(copy) names ...SKILL, SKILLSAW, SKILLSHOP.
At that time Skill realized that they could not compete with the newer advanced technology and abandoned the chainsaw division.
history:.........FOR THOSE INTERESTED
opcorn:
1969:Skil purchased a chainsaw company,PM( Power machinery) from Vancouver (rights are currently owned by Mike Acres, Vancouver)
In June of 1974, Electrolux AB, the Swedish vacuum cleaner manufacturer, announced its bid for National Union. Electrolux had been unable to use its name in the United States since 1968 (when it sold its American Electrolux Co. subsidiary to Consolidated Foods Co.), and it was looking to re-enter the lucrative American market. National Union supported Electrolux's takeover of Eureka-Williams, whose name was changed backed to the Eureka Company.
Jan 1979: Directors of Skil Corp., a manufacturer of portable power tools, have approved an agreement to merge with St. Louis-based Emerson Electric Co.,
In addition to shareholder approval, the deal also is contingent upon an opinion by Skil's lawyers about the tax-free nature of the proposed ex- change of the 1.94 million shares of Skil stock. and upon sale of Skil's chainsaw business.
The merger of the Skil Corporation into the Emerson Electric Company moved closer to realization as the two companies announced that Skil agreed to sell its chain saw business to the National Union Electric Corporation a division of Eureka-Williams.
Eureka celebrated its 50th anniversary year in 1959, the year in which Feldmann announced his intention to merge Eureka-Williams with National Union Electric Corporation, a heating and air-conditioning manufacturer of which Feldmann was both chairman and president. At the time of the merger Eureka-Williams was described as manufacturing vacuum cleaners, oil burners, school furniture, aircraft generators, hydraulic motors, starters and inverters, and thermal batteries at plants in Bloomington and Canastota, New York. Feldmann took Eureka private and it became a division of National Union.
By the mid-1990s, Eureka held steady at its perennial number two position in the vacuum cleaner market, but had rebounded from losses in market share in the early 1990s, ending the chainsaw line of production forever……...
