The Waterbury Hook and Eye Company began in Waterbury in 1849, under a partnership that included Elisha Turner (b.1822) and, later, Lyman Coe (Coe Brass). The firm moved to Torrington (at the corner of Main and Water Streets) in 1864 when it was reorganized as Turner and Clark; in 1866 it merged with Seymour Manufacturing to become Turner and Seymour Manufacturing Co. The company produced a wide array of metal products such as upholstery hardware, castings, hooks and eyes, pins, nails, chains, handles and even automated posted machines as early as the 1890s. The firm outgrew the factory space it occupied, purchasing land at the end of Lawton Street in 1892 for a new facility. In 1922, the company was sold to an industrialist from Bridgeport and Stamford, but it retained its name and many of its original products. The company grew quickly after World War I; having received substantial government contracts. Growth continued in the 1950s through 1970s with the acquisition of other companies. In 1974, Turner and Seymour acquired Byron Chain Manufacturing Co. of Scheller Park, Illinois, after which its product line ranged from furniture hardware to chain production. Purchased in 2013 by Perfection Chain and renamed T and S Perfection Chain Products Inc., it claims to be the largest producer of weldless chain in North America, and employs about 50 at the Torrington facility.