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Like many other important inventions, the idea was almost too revolutionary for

immediate acceptance by the trade and Mr. Woodward accordingly joined forces

with the Smith and Hemenway Co. owners of the RED DEVIL trademark who

contributed the marketing facilities with the engineering for development of the

tool.

From this beginning

“

RED DEVIL

”

has been The Standard for Steel Wheel Glass

Cutters throughout the world.

In 1926 Mr. Landon P. Smith, one of the founders and President of the Smith

Hemenway Co. succeeded to the glass cutter business of that firm. Soon

afterward, his new company, Landon P. Smith, Inc., merged with the Woodward

Glass Cutter Co. of Hill, N. H. and continued to develop the RED DEVIL glass

cutter business.

In 1929 the Master Manufacturing Company was purchased to add a line of paint

hooks and related products. 1932 brought the acquisition of Vosco Tool

‟

s wood

scraper business. And in 1933 the company began production of lawn sprinklers.

The 1934 catalog contained thirty-six pages of Red Devil products.