I hate to be this guy but who made them? I’m not talking about ratchets for sockets, but box end combination wrenches. They weren’t forged, and the company had a lot of speciality products. I can’t remember their former name or the new name. I’ve got about an over an hour of searching invested and can’t figure it out. Hey weren’t a well known company.
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Like these?
www.langtools.com
SKU : ROWM-7P - 7 Pc. Metric Offset Wrench Set - Roll Pouch
Manufacturing professional tools since 1932
www.langtools.com
KnurledNut
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You may be thinking of A&E Manufacturing in Racine, WI.
woody 73
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Not what the op was looking for, but some very good information about their early designs. (From an old story of mine).
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Patent No. 3,273,430 Knudsen,Price, & Olson Wrench geometry
I am amazed at how fast the vintage tool section is moving these days, since we only have 12 members and 12 guests at any one time. Today I only have information about Knudsen but if we (GJ member ckadams00 and myself) find any more information we will share it with you in any further...
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Thank you, that’s it.Like these?
SKU : ROWM-7P - 7 Pc. Metric Offset Wrench Set - Roll Pouch
Manufacturing professional tools since 1932
four.cycle
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A & E / A & E Inc., 5501 21st St., Racine, WI / https://www.aeincorporated.com/ est. 1932 / patent 2500835 Mar 14 1950 & 4748875 Jun 7 1988 & 4819521 Apr 11 1989 John W. Lang / http://alloy-artifacts.org/a_e_manufacturing.html / patent http://alloy-artifacts.org/a_e_manufacturing.html#history / http://toolarchives.com/node/366 / see also Kastar, see also Lang Tool /
Kastar / see A & E, see Lang / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/kastar-tools-made-in-the-usa.8971/ /
Lang / Lang Tools, 5501 21st St., Racine, WI 53406/ http://www.langtools.com/ / see A & E, see Kastar /
Langline / see Lang Tools /
A & E, Kastar, Lang - all the same company now, still manufacturing these with any number of brand names stamped on them:
Kastar / see A & E, see Lang / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/kastar-tools-made-in-the-usa.8971/ /
Lang / Lang Tools, 5501 21st St., Racine, WI 53406/ http://www.langtools.com/ / see A & E, see Kastar /
Langline / see Lang Tools /
A & E, Kastar, Lang - all the same company now, still manufacturing these with any number of brand names stamped on them:
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dnschmidt
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^^^^^ Right. They were also ugly as hell and only had about 20 positions in 360 degrees but that was better than nothing when they were the only game in town prior to Goodwrench.