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Yancey McDonald Bledsoe obituary, The Bonham (TX) Daily Favorite, Tue., May 24, 1955, page 4. Find-a-Grave

1947 newspaper ad in Miles City, MT.

Hardware Age 9/26/46 on Archive.org

Link to Jaw Manufacturing's (Jawco) 1959 catalog showing socket spinners.

Link to new scan of Crescent Tool Catalog No. 11, apparently 1914. It has 3 color pages of these "moving picture show slides" for movie theaters.

1911 newspaper article confirming sale of Leavens (Jersey vises) to Stanley. Feel free to repost image.

Finally, here's a scan of Sparta Hand Tools : Catalog No. 156.

I have the 1980 edition.

Ad from Tucson, AZ newspaper, Feb. 22, 1943, showing Twistites were used by Consolidated Aircraft for manufacturing the B-24.

Twistite Quick-Acting Push-Pull Clamps, Vises by Richards' Industries, Inc. of Grand Rapids, MI, from Hardware Age, July 28, 1949.

Elias W. Walker obituary.

Here ya go, in 1942 Elias W. Walker was working for Quality Tools Corp., AKA Old Forge and Oldforge, in New Wilmington, PA.

More to this - I found the owner was Elias W. Walker, who was listed in the 1940 US Census as "superintendent, tool mfg. co." in New Wilmington, Lawrence, PA. In the 1950 US Census, he was in the same city, occupation manufacturer, industry Walker Manufacturing Co. He has the same family in...

His name was William Walker, born in Ireland about 1898, may have lived in Tarentum, Allegheny County, PA, before that. Can't find death record or more info. This is the 1950 US Census, Mercer, Mercer County, PA.

Just found this June 1946 full page Swallow Airplane ad on Google Books.

Sold as a BIN on eBay this week, a little J. P. Danielson Catalog No. 5.

It's not Gilpin, Footprint, Brades, Whitehouse, or Marples.

I have scanned a BMC brochure, which came from Petersen Manufacturing Co. competitor research files. BMC Precision Pressure Lock Wrench Also have a scan of Botnick Motor Corp. brochure

The Allway saws just came to my attention so I posted some ads on ITCL. The company name changed from Ultra Manufacturing Co. to Allway Manufacturing Co. in late 1949 or early 1950.

PM sent yesterday. I'd like to scan most of this. The top priority would be the vise catalogs.