Bullard Company

In 1880 Edward Payson Bullard founded the Bridgeport Machine Tool Works in a loft in Bridgeport, Conn. The company produced vertical lathes, machine tools used in other industries such as transportation and construction. By 1890 the company had grown and was producing lathes, boring and turning mills, turret machines, standard box tools, die holders and dies, pointing tools, stop gauges. In 1894 the company name changed to Bullard Machine Tool Works. It moved its plant to Black Rock in 1917. On 4 Jan. 1929, the firm's stock was admitted for trading in the New York Stock Exchange and the previously private company went public. At the same time, the name of the firm changed to The Bullard Company. After years of increasing production and marketing, the company was taken over by White Consolidated Industries and business declined. The plant closed in the early 1980s and was demolished in 1983. The site is currently occupied by BJ's Warehouse.