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That tool with that number would not be from 1923. More likely from the early 1930's. Very early tools had no number and tools from the late 1920's usually were prefixed with a letter. For example early sockets have a D or DD prefix depending on whether or not they are 6 or 12 point sockets. It...

Blackhawk tools have spoken to me for more than 20 years. To be honest I used to collect Snap-on but when I saw the light I moved on. Innovation way ahead of it's time which sadly stopped sometime in the mid 50's. Who knows where they would be today if those founding fathers were still...

For one thing Plomb is a very old company starting out in 1908 I believe. They were originally they were a Blacksmith shop that moved into the automotive tool line. Their very early tools show the problems they had in entering that field as Snap-on held the patents for detachable sockets and...

Pretty much standard fare maybe from the 50's.. Not really useful for car work as it was a poor mans choice opposed to buying a floor jack. When I was little my dad bought one and it was a real job to get a car high enough to work under. We had to go back and forth between jack stands and wood...

I am old enough to have met a number of WWII vets and you are right they are from a different generation. You cannot help but feel a sense of pride for what was accomplished at that time. You cannot feel the same, in any case, for many of the wars that have followed.

I suggested a look see at this site earlier in this post but I don't think there were many takers. So I have uploaded a few of the images. These are all from WWII era Kodachrome slides of incredible quality showing manufacturing of war materials during this time.

Fantastic images but I am a longtime photographer and see from those images that they are starting to show their age. Most color prints from that era of time have not held up well showing the effects of color shifts and fading. A real treat is to see Kodachromes shot during WWII on 4x5 film...

This is a common application but you need a frame to go along with the hammer. I have seen these set up at a number of auto swaps by custom makers. The dies are easily available on ebay but making the frame could get complicated without the necessary tools to construct. These planishing...

Thanks for the link somehow I had missed that history page from before but this time around I found it. Great images of the Lo-Way Mechanical Jack with the single rear wheel. I have a Weaver Catalog from the late 1940's showing on a page where they were trying to streamline their line of...

That is the last incarnation of the Weaver Mechanical Jack. Previous models did not have the outboard rear wheels having rather a single or double wheels mounted inboard in the center of the jack. I am sure they went to the outboard wheels because of stability problems but I can tell you that...

I am taking a film appreciation class in college and yesterday we saw "Kiss Me Deadly" done in 1955. A nice new Walker Greyhound Jack is featured in a couple of different parts of the movie. At one point one of the characters intent on murder walks into the shop and turns the handle on the jack...

Weaver hasn't made a mechanical floor jack since WWII but did make them very early on going back to the 1920's. Without an image it would be very hard to identify.

Snap-on had a very real problem with some of their early hard handles that did just that degrading by sitting in the toolbox. Something in the composition of the material caused those handles to degrade over time. I have had the same problem with Plumb, Craftsman and many other styles of...

The original color for vintage Walker Jacks was a dark blue. None of the old catalogs were printed with color photos but printed instead with colored images which were always the dark blue.

I am surprised no one has mentioned "Chain" pipe wrenches. Expensive to buy but in my case a regular pipe wrench wouldn't work for a job I had under my house. Bought the chain wrench from McMaster-Carr that morning.... it was delivered later on the same day and I was able to complete my job. For...

Your images are more like thumbnails than pictures and really hard to see the details. But I think I can safely say that it is a Walker from the late 1930's. Nice jack but they don't bring much money on the used market because no one particularly likes these big mechanical jacks. The most I have...

Those types of jacks are for leveling equipment I believe. They come in all sorts of sizes and are still being made today. The design of them hasn't changed much over the years so it would be hard to date one of these exactly.

Here are a few threads I started sometime back relevant to your question. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87555 http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87731

Any maker who can't find a way to put their company name on their product to me is not happy to let you know that they are making it.

Blackhawk bottom boxes from any vintage are not common. The one with the light is probably their most elegant box. I really like its art deco styling. I personally have looked for more than 20 years to find one but here at the GJ is the only place I have seen any of these bottom boxes. Whoever...