COO: Germany: British Zone?

[rickhigginshtbr]

So just got done with these directional cutters... and found a COO I've never seen before:




Oxwall Tool Co. Germany British Zone. When could have these been produced? These are extremely nice and staying in my personal collection.

 

[Fretters]

So just got done with these directional cutters... and found a COO I've never seen before:

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Oxwall Tool Co. Germany British Zone. When could have these been produced? These are extremely nice and staying in my personal collection.

That's a new one on me too. Only time I can imagine it would have been zoned would be between WWI and WWII. If I recall, various countries, ourselves and yourselves included, had their fingers in Germany's pie, so to speak. I Could be way off, but that's the only thing I can think of.

 

[Carves]

Looks like a good ol set of sidecutters.

If they still have a good cutting edge and the action is tight .. they're worth hanging onto.

Google Potsdam Conference for info on the "British Zone" ..


... and theres a little bit of Oxwall Tool Co. history in this link.

http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/vanished-tool-makers-oxwall-tools.html

 

[Lassen Forge]

Post WW2... Just like East Germany was the Russian Zone. There was a US, British, and French zone. With the exception of the DDR (East Germany) the zones were abolished in the 50's.

 

[southalabama]

Cool

And

Historical

 

[Pumpman1968]

Post WW2... Just like East Germany was the Russian Zone. There was a US, British, and French zone. With the exception of the DDR (East Germany) the zones were abolished in the 50's.

What he said. Berlin was also quartered.

 

[Fretters]

Am I getting my WW's mixed up then? I always thought they'd done that, or similar, after the first. Or, did they just impose similar both times? Can probably tell I was never a history buff.

 

[pozidriv]

1945-1949

Really cool set of pliers!!

 

[dmeadow]

Those would have been made in the British Zone after WW2 and before the formation of West Germany in 1949.

 

[jreb10]

I have a pliers with that marking. It is labeled "Oxwall Tool Co." as seen below:



Here is a closer view of the markings:



Oxwall Tool was located in the US, in PA I think. They made low-end, homeowner tools. I guess after the war they saw the opportunity to outsource production of some items to devastated Germany where people would work for peanuts. Sorta like China a few years ago. Nothing new under the sun I guess.

The more things change the more things stay the same.

 

[Fretters]

1945-1949

Cheers for those.

It was the Treaty of Versailles, (memory finally kicked in), which I was thinking of. Honestly never knew they'd divided Germany in that fashion after WWII though. Learn summat new every day.

 

[rickhigginshtbr]

I have a pliers with that marking. It is labeled "Oxwall Tool Co." as seen below:

I actually have those identical pliers under a different brand, I'll post pics later.

 

[Outlawmws]

Cool find and yep I've got a few from the US and Brit zones, nothing from the F zone though...

 

[Lippyp]

Lots of foreigners were brought in to German businesses post WWII to get them up and running again. For instance Volkswagen was actually started up again by the British Army in 1945 producing Beetles and was formally handed back to the Germans in 1949. It makes sense therefore that US and UK tool companies would have been instrumental in getting those industries back up and running. Remember Germany was a devastated mess with a huge number of work age men dead including many skilled workers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-blueprints-bomb-hit-German-factory-1945.html