Lets make an all vintage Snap-on tool picture thread!

[Historyworker]

I scored two older snap-on pieces (for less than a gas station coffee) last weekend. One is a Ford door handle remover and the other is a slotted screwdriver with a 21.5" blade. Anyone care to guess which is which based on just the pics?

 

[bmwrd0]

Plucked this screwdriver out of a box a house liquidator brought to the flea this morning. I am very fond of this style. Like a shorter version of a heavy-duty machinist's type, with a through shank. Very robust. Fits well in the hand and will turn large screws. The edge of the ferrule is a little dinged up (which I will carefully tend to with a file) and the handle is a little worn, but pleased with the find. They introduced the No. 153 in 1934 and it was discontinued by 1949. No catalog lists a suffix "A" version, but I am pretty sure it was made in that timeframe. Probably by Bridgeport or Stanley, if I had to guess.

If it hadn't said Blue Point, I would have guessed Stanley Hurwood.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

If it hadn't said Blue Point, I would have guessed Stanley Hurwood.

Agreed, Beemer, as I alluded to here...

Probably by Bridgeport or Stanley, if I had to guess.

...but one feature of Stanley "Hurwood" drivers is the finned through-shank.

Here is one, at the bottom, same OAL as the Blue-Point I just found, and looking very similar, but not identical. The others are Bridgeport "Matchless," longer models, but looking more similar in the ferrule, and, no finned through-shank. (The older "Matchless" at the top does have a hex shaped through-shank, same purpose as the fins, as you know, to prevent the handle from turning off the shank.) I do have the same stubby size "Matchless" somewhere as the Blue-Point 153A and the Stanley "Hurwood", that I would've preferred for the comparison photo, but I can't find it at the moment. I suspect it's in my daughter's apartment. (The hazards of reaching for vintage tools as users. )

Then again, the "Matchless" are square shanks.

So, perhaps they did source from Stanley, just not "Hurwood" or not including that feature.