Pump Oiler Labels

Wesco is the tradename for A.E. Westood Ltd. of Warwickshire."Ardex Perfetto" were trademarks used by the H.R. Radomski & Co. Ltd of Toronto. No idea about the other makes.

A match made in heaven

Based on the alphanumeric phone number, this book of matches is from sometime before the 1960's.

Tanks for the memories

Tanks rolling out of the Chrysler factory during WWII.  Chrysler produced 25,507 of these armoured vehicles during the war. Shermans and Grants being built side by side.

License Number Bingo

Patented in 1943!  What passed for traveling entertainment for children before Gameboy.

Morrisons of Croydon; Aircraft construction maintenance and repair

Shears

Picked up a pair of Disston-Porter shears this week for a buck.  I'm a sucker for any tools made entirely of forged steel.  No wimpy foamy grips for me, just practical well-made tools designed to last.
I was surprised to find that I already had an absolutely identical pair (top, below), marked "Columbian H.S.B. & Co.", which would have been the Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. of Chicago, big hardware retailers until the 1960's.  Maybe they were marked "Columbian" because they were intended to trim your prize weed?
I suspect that Disston (of Philadelphia fame) must have made these for H.S.B. & Co., and continued with the design after being sold to Thomas Mellon Evans (through his Pittsburgh holding company, H.K. Porter).  Evans promptly liquidated everything.  End of the story. Nice shears, though.

B17 "Chuckie" at Hamilton Air Show 2011

A B17-G. Named after the former owner, DocHospers' wife, Charlyn "Chuckie" Hospers.

Thirty seven pounds of cutting magic!

From an early Robertson Screw ad.

Beer Opener with instructions

Believe it or not, from a British-made can opener, marketing Watney-Mann beer on the opposite side.  This brew maker operated in England from 1958 to 1979.

Either drinking this beer made you too stupid to use the tool (hence the instructions), or this kind of opener was generally unknown to the British at this time.