Throw away your tool boxes full of extraneous tools, buy one of these! The Thomas Mfg. Co. started about the year 1900 and made a line of combination/multitools. They seem to have sold a lot of them, judging the amount of them that come up for sale.
Information on the actual company is hard to come by.
The Matthews "Never Stall" Monkey Wrench Combination Tool was made and marketed by the Thomas Mfg. Co. of Dayton, Ohio. It was known as the Windmill Tool. This tool was supposed to be all you ever needed when you climbed up a windmill tower. Their ads pointed out that the Windmill Tool did the work of fifteen different tools. The Patent No. was 933,860 Sept. 14, 1909.
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2 comments:
The American version of the Swiss Army knife?
I have one of these multi tools with axe/hammer and was wondering when it was made?
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