Does anyone know this manufacturer?

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Here's an unopened box of DOEs.

 

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Here's an unopened box of DOEs.
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Awesome, UserName! That's classic to me that you refer to it as "unopened box", because I so often compare tool collectors to baseball card collectors, and an "unopened box" is every card nut's dream.

 

[steaks&anvils]

Arcturus is known to have made 5 of the 6 wrenches in the 6-wrench set - and again, nobody has ever seen an Arcturus 41-W-991 "723" 3/8 x 7/16 engineers wrench, the smallest in the standard 5- or 6-wrench set.

Here's an unopened box of DOEs.

UserName,

Being unopened, would the unseen "41-W-991 "723" 3/8 x 7/16 engineers wrench" possibly be in there?

To keep from opening the box, maybe if the correct other wrenches were gathered together and weighed, and your box then weighed, you could then decide if the unseen one is present?

or others could weigh their examples and then you can add up the weights and compare that to the weight of the unopened box?

Will you be able to sleep not know if the one extant example wrench?

 

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UserName,

Being unopened, would the unseen "41-W-991 "723" 3/8 x 7/16 engineers wrench" possibly be in there?

Not to pour water on your tongue-in-cheek discovery protocol, but I'm reckoning an "unopened box" would contain a dozen or so of the same wrench.

Can username pinpoint the contents? Inquiring minds want to know!

 

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Sorry guys, to make you wait for the response. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever found an Arcturus DOE in the 3/8" & 7/16" (ISN#723). They probably didn't make one. But, they did make the other 4 'Jeep' wrench sizes.

This box contains Qty 10 of 41-W-1005-5. Sizes 9-16" & 11-16" as shown on the side of the box.
Contract # W-04-200-Ord-486

Whether there are actually 10 of them in there or not, I'll never know.

 

[steaks&anvils]

Not to pour water on your tongue-in-cheek discovery protocol, but I'm reckoning an "unopened box" would contain a dozen or so of the same wrench.

Can username pinpoint the contents? Inquiring minds want to know!

Huh, I never even thought that the box was full of ALL the same sized wrenches. I was fixated on a set of them.

FYI, if the box had been a package "set", it would totally drive me nuts to not know if that wrench was in there. Just saying.

 

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I picked up this Bonney made Krieger ISN 1028-S wrench at the flea yesterday. Dated K-U (Nov. '43.) which is consistent with Lugz' research up thread for late 43 through early 44 contracts.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Nice and deep markings on that one. And a Jeep/GMTK ISN that is not always easy to find in every brand. I don't know why this hasn't struck me before, I guess because most of us WWII guys have put together so many 5- or 6-wrench Fairmount, Duro, Vlchek, or Williams Jeep-/GMTK-spec sets by now that it's no longer challenging enough... HAHA, but it would be kind of neat (also probably very difficult) to put together a Krieger motorpool set.

 

[d42jeep]

I’m highly offended that you didn’t mention Barcalo!
-Don

 

[Mikeske]

In my defense, I know of whole family’s that dropped parts of their name because of the German sound.

Not all German families that resided in the USA during the 2 world wars changed the spelling or parts of their names. I grew up in a heavily German immigrant area of Iowa and with I having a German name that was not changed from Germany. My great grandparents immigrated from Germany sometime in the 1870's as my grandfather was born in Iowa in 1898. Both my grandparents and my fathers generation all spoke German and English. I do know that a lot of the German names were changed when they came through Ellis Island as the Americans could not correctly pronounce the German name

 

[Forgottonia]

Do I like that brand of wrenches? Yep, yep, yep! ((In case you're not a fan of the show Archer, that's my avatar's name: Dr. Krieger.))

 

[Provincial]

My wife's family immigrated just before WWI. They were from Austria and Southern Germany. Great-Grandparent's from Grandma's side came too. They first settled in Portland, OR, but found it not very hospitable during WWI, so they moved to a rural part of the Willamette Valley. The Great-Grandparents bought 80 acres next to the Grandparent's 40 acre place. The families farmed and raised livestock. Grandfather was a carpenter and later worked in a sawmill. The farms are now owned by the grandchildren, so they have stayed in the family.