Recent content by Mark Stansbury

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Here is a new scan of Western Tool & Manufacturing Co. Catalog No. 19, 1922. Vises begin on page 80. Archive.org and Vintage Machinery Scan of their Catalog No. 17 also available.

Here's a new scan of a previously unknown 16-page Vacuum Grip catalog plus a 4-page supplement, no date that I see.

Ridge Tool ad introducing these in 1928.

Two more 1930 Park Metalware ads. I also found a mention of hickory-handled screwdrivers in 1930, but was unable to find them in an ad.

Last night my wife and I were watching Murder, She Wrote, Season 1, Episode 20, "Murder Takes the Bus" (1985), where the victim was stabbed with a screwdriver, and I recognized it as an Xcelite. Here's the proof.

Announcement of the first Xcelite plastic handle screwdriver in Motor, Nov. 1930. BTW, most 1930 publications are full view on Google Books as of 1/1/26.

Circa 1908. J. E. Plunket at Vintage Machinery

Just found this while researching catalog dates. In 1929 Stevens Walden-Worcester had a tool truck built that they called a missionary van. When parked, a switch raised the roof and expanded the sides to display the entire product line to their wholesale customers. The ad and articles explain fully.

New scan of a 1976 Lumidor catalog and 1977 price list.

Now available, a scan of J. H. Williams Twentieth Edition Catalog (Dec. 1926), with separate Nov. 1, 1927 supplement.

In case you haven't seen it, I located a scan of the complete Oswego Tools Catalogue No. 27 and have posted it on the Internet Archive.

Found this Charles Parker 33-1/2 at Goodwill yesterday. My first thought was it was an import due to the non-acme thread and other details, but it says U.S.A. Jaws are 3-5/8" wide.

I created an entry at ITCL for Foote and the Farmer's Ever-Ready Tool Kit.

Search for Manbee, Motor Age on Internet Archive