Chicago Machinery Exchange (CME) was a dealer who also put their name on some machines, even having their name cast into some of them. It's impossible to be certain, but we suspect that they did not actually manufacture anything themselves.

CME dates back to at least 1906, and survived to at least 1957.

Information Sources

• A tilting-table saw has been seen with "Chicago Machinery Exchange" cast into the base.
• We have seen 27" bandsaws labeled with the "Chicago Machinery Exchange" name. The machines were made by Sidney Tool Co.
• The 1906 Annual Report of the Illinois Department of Factory Inspection mentions Chicago Machinery Exchange.
• Directory of Directors in the City of Chicago, 1906, from the Audit Company of New York, lists Waldemar Giertsen, "13-15 North Canal Street, Chicago Machinery Exchange, President, Treasurer and Director."
• The November 1909 issue of Wood Craft lists Chicago Machinery Exchange as a dealer in second-hand machinery, and supplier of bandsaws, boring machines, box making machinery, cabinet planers, carving machines, cutoff saws, cutter heads, dovetailers, dowel machines, end matchers, flooring machines, flue heaters, glue spreaders, grinders, jointers, patternmaker's lathes, turning lathes, mortisers, pattern shop machinery, planing mill machinery, resaws, ripsaws, sanders, sash and door machinery, blind machinery, saw tables, shapers, surfacers, swing saws, tenoners, trimmers, trucks, and veneer presses.
• Ad from a 1919 issue of "The Wood-Worker" for this company.
• Norwegian-American studies and records, Volume 12, from 1941, and available in snippet view in Google Books, has this snippet: "Waldemar Giertsen from Bergen died some years ago after becoming the owner and president of the Chicago Machinery Exchange. Dore Lavik, who soon returned to ..."
• A 1957 issue of Hitchcock's Wood Working Digest mentions Chicago Machinery Exchange.