Old Brand I've Never Heard Of

[Charles (in GA)]

Went to a flea market today. Lots of loose tools on tables, all cheap junk or horribly rusted. Did find one double open (9/16 - 1/2) end, fairly old, marked MCKAIG-HATCH INC and MADE IN USA.

Anyone ever heard of this? Is it a "department store" or retailer brand name?

Paid fifty cents for it.

Also found 12 inch long, chrome, 3/8 drive extensions, USA made. Vendor said they were S-K made for the government. No manufacture markings, just JS-12200-11 USA on it and the knurling, which is nice and smooth, not the cheap, sharp edged knurling. Paid $5 each for them and he had a couple of hundred of them.

Charles

 

[Charles (in GA)]

Searched Alloy-Artifacts and found some about McKaig-Hatch.

http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/mckaig-hatch.html

Charles

 

[lbgradwell]

They supplied Chevy with car tool kits in the 1930s-40s.

1941 Chevrolet Tool Kit

 

[krusty the clown]

i have one mckaig-hatch wrench...........very crude raised panel wrench.

 

[sk farmer]

i have seen js marked sk stuff. i think just extensions like you saw, maybe a ratchet but not sockets.

 

[Coach James]

I've got a few of their wrenches. I had no idea what time period they were from though.

Coach