Bluejet Chain 1930 T-Shirt

Mill & Mine Supply of Seattle, Washington manufactured the legendary Titan Chainsaws, and also made the equally renowned Bluejet Chain. Titan became so successful, it eventually became the parent company. The Draper Corporation of Hopedale, Massachusetts, wanted key saw chain patents that Titan held, and purchased the company the early '40s. They promptly sold off the chainsaw manufacturing business and retained the Bluejet Chain brand, as well as the key patents, and began manufacturing saw chains under the Bluejet label. At its height, Draper employed over 3,000 people, though as fortunes declined in the '60s, it was gobbled it up by a larger toolmaker in 1967, and under their leadership, layoffs began in '75 until closure in '80.