thumb|right|A Bullard [[CNC VTL.]]
thumb|Bullard Mult-Au-Matic, a vertical, multispindle automatic lathe, 1914.
thumb|[[Memorial Day 1942 at Bullard]]
The Bullard Machine Tool Company was a large American machine tool builder. It specialized in vertical boring mills and was largely responsible for the development of the modern form of that class of machine tools.
History
The firm was founded in 1894 by Edward Payson Bullard Sr. (born April 18, 1841, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, US; died December 22, 1906, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, US). He received formative experience at Colt's Manufacturing Company and Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems, Bullard Sr is believed to have developed the first small boring machine designed to do the accurate work previously performed on the faceplate of a lathe. Roe (1916) says that "Up to that time boring machines were relied on only for large and rough work." For a while in America during the 20th century, the name "Bullard" on the shop floor was something of a genericized trademark for vertical turret-head boring mills. E.P. Bullard Jr led the development of the company's multiple-spindle brand machine that became an important automatic lathe in the mass production of parts for the automotive industry.