Draper Tools wrench

  Draper Tools is British tool company, founded in 1919. They started as a reseller of government surplus and tools, becoming an agent for King Dick, Britool and others as the business expanded. They also contracted out manufacturing for their own line of wrenches marked B.D.S. after the company name Bert Draper and Son. The BDS name was phased out in the 1960s, to be replaced with the Draper Tools brand. The manufacturing is now contracted out to Taiwanese and Chinese companies. 

 Draper Tools is still in business and on the third generation of family ownership. Now I have to find a BDS wench!
 

Dremel Model A sander

This is a nice little metal and bakelite corded palm sander, lacking a little in styling perhaps... This unit doesn't look like it was ever used.

 

Cars in the 'hood...

Definitely not the most desirable model of this manufacturer but unique and rare...  How often do we see these on the street?

 

Monday Mystery

 Looks like part of some blacksmith or farmer-made device. The handle look worn by hand use, but no idea what they might have been used for. Any ideas?

Some kinda hook...

I can't figure this one out.

 

Sidecar Sunday

Looks good in yellow.

 

Know your Livingston hammers...

Handles not included... 

  Livingston Mfg. set up in Rockland Maine in 1890 to make stone cutting, shipwright and blacksmith tools. In 1928 the manager of the company, Putnam Bicknell, acquired a controlling interest and changed the name to Bicknell Manufacturing. The factory continued production for several more decades, despite the dying stone trade and the rise of steel construction in ships.

One of my vices is vises, Defiance by Stanley

Stylish little streamlined 2.5" vise and apparently the one red jaw was stock.  Nice.

 

The "Blue 'un" 1957

 

Planes in formation; English Electric Lightnings

 

Transvaal money bank

 Here's an oddity found at an antique store, a savings bank modelled after an unflattering caricature of Paul Kruger, president of South Africa from 1883 to 1900. The caricature, drawn by Francis Carruthers Gould had appeared in the Westminster Gazette. The 6 inch tall bank was made by the British company John Harper and Co. of Birmingham.

Fray and Pigg Brace

Here's about the most basic of braces, the knob is a separate part as is the wing nut on the simple  Spofford patent type chuck/clamp. That's it, and it all works perfectly a hundred or more years later.  The cast in 8 on the bottom of the knob refers to the swing. Fray and Pigg braces were apparently made starting in 1859, The John Fray company was purchased by Stanley in 1909. More here. 

 

 

1975 El Camino

 

Coming to an airport near you!

S wrench by York

 

 Two possibilities on this one. Either the  York wrench Co of Duluth, founded in 1921 (History at Alloy Artifacts) or it's an industrial service wrench from the York Manufacturing Company (commonly known as the York Ice Machinery Corp who started business in 1874 making ice machinery and as refrigeration was taking over from iceboxes, changed to the air conditioning business.

Too bad the markings are hard to read.

GSXR Chevrolet S-10 promotion

  I don't remember ever seeing this promotional tie-up in any magazine back then. A Chevrolet S-10 pickup in GSXR colours. I expect it was attempting to follow the Yamahauler Toyota trucks of a few years previous. the linkup was featured in the Suzuki Family corporate magazine- which I'd never seen before...

Thanks, Kevan!

 

Brown & Sharpe Micrometer

 Here's a nice micrometer for those vital measurements you need to take- between 17 and 18 inches.

 

Osborne revolving punch

  

We've all seen (and owned) this type of multi-holesize leather punch. Usually assembled from a few pressed steel parts. They're fragile and never last long. This one is different, made of solid cast parts with a well supported wheel, a beautiful thing. 

The tool was made by a company named C. S. Osborne, which is still in business today. Company website here.

 

Monday Mystery, Monarch crimping tool?

  AI tells me this is a "TE connectivity 69710 Monarch" crimping tool (which it does not seem to be...) but between the name and the numbered parts there are no other markings. The jaws meet like a end cutter but does anyone have any ideas?
 

Another Ford Deluxe

Hotrod or stock?

 

Sidecar Sunday

East Germany,  1966

Stainless steel emasculator

Involuntary winces all round...

 

G-man gun

  Made by the Louis Marx toy company, this was a wind-up toy that made machine gun noises. Just the thing for a depression era boy.

Hat stretcher

 

  The handle turns on a double ended thread, moving the two ends further apart- to stretch that hat you rashly bought without trying on first. 

Savage Drama!

United Sports Mfg.

 

More do-it-yourself lead sinkers. Apparently everyone was making fishing equipment at home in their spare time.

Hinsdale wrench

 

Here’s a 5/8- 19/32” wrench made in the USA  by Hinsdale Mfg. Markings are all on one side. 

 The company was started in -919 by Fred W. Miller in Hinsdale, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.  Lacking a better idea he named it after the town but within a couple of years had moved to a new factory on Fulton St in Chicago. They made wrenches, socket sets and other mechanics hand tools. These tools were available through WesternAuto, Montgomery Ward, Sears and others.

The company seems to have lasted into the 1950s.

Complete history at Alloy Artifacts.