This box was sitting out beside the road, and I couldn't just leave it there, right? It even came with a few stray Gray sockets.
Though I don't need another toolbox, and this doesn't seem to be any significant make, no stamped name, remains of a decal or any identification of any sort. A little WD40 on the thirty pivots and it works well. I think it's left best with patina till I figure out what to do with it.
What you have is a Gedore brand cantilever tool box. I have the same thing only with two trays instead of the four yours has. Its been in our family for the last 50 years. No label on it either. But I do have a matching Gedore branded ratchet and socket set in a metal case with the same blue finish that dad acquired around the same time in Caracas circa 1973. A web search for "Gedore Toolbox" shows your model as well as mine in the same metallic blue shade.
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Oddly, my paternal grandfather whom I suspect these came from, was a kraut also named Otto and had brothers named Karl and Willy.... but the surname was Sauer.
He should have started a tool making company and named it GeSare!
ReplyDeleteIt's a good solid toolbox even with all those pivots. Too heavy to carry around though.Thanks for the info!
Looking at pictures online, the only brand I saw with that particularly well-engineered top hasp design were the older Hazet brand.
ReplyDeleteProbably because I'm clumsy and when I work in the field I tend to put my toolboxes on the floor I was never a fan of the cantilever style. I could just see myself kicking the thing accidentally and sending tools scattering all over the place. Not to mention they tend to tip over. I have a large Kennedy one and a half-dozen French-made red ones I bought at one of those unclaimed-freight closeout places (because they were so pretty) but they all sit empty. I've turned to the utility-worker heavy canvas bags because they keep stuff in even when they get kicked around and I can lock them in the cab of my King Ranch without worrying about danmage to the leather interior from sharp metal corners.
darn spell checker.. that was meant to read "maternal grandfather".
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