Powr Kraft and Wizard Catalog Help

[Lesserstore]

Does anybody know where to find Wizard and Powr Kraft catalogs or Montgomery Ward and Western Auto catalog scans? I've looked all over and I can only find a few Montgomery Ward Christmas catalogs which don't cover much in the way of tools and the only Wizard catalog is from 1955.

 

[RTM]

Did you try these? Don’t know how much Wizard in there. Probably too early for all but the one.

https://archive.org/details/internationaltoolcataloglibrary?and[]=Western+auto&sin=

 

[bonneyman]

Have you looked at this site? I've found alot of cool stuff here.

https://archive.org/

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I feel your pain. I have been collecting wards and wizard socket sets for awhile now and references are thin.

 

[Lesserstore]

Thanks for the quick responses guys.
I would like to ask if anyone has these catalogs if they would be so kind to upload them (or in the case of the big catalogs the tool section) to either vintagemachinery.org or archive.org. Thanks

I'm also thinking about starting a store brand catalog page for Sears, Western Auto, and Montgomery Ward, basically to at least somewhat organize things, what do y'all think?

 

[d42jeep]

As far as I can tell, Wards information is extremely limited.
-Don

 

[Rileysan]

Since Montgomery Wards didn't publish any specialized mechanics tool catalogs, and only published power tools catalogs for a few years, the task of collecting 900+ page store catalogs is a daunting one. I have a few that I've collected for the express purpose of identifying Speedmaster and Powr Kraft tools but I have no immediate plans to scan and digitize any pages.

Is there something specific you're looking for?

Brian

 

[Lesserstore]

Since Montgomery Wards didn't publish any specialized mechanics tool catalogs, and only published power tools catalogs for a few years, the task of collecting 900+ page store catalogs is a daunting one. I have a few that I've collected for the express purpose of identifying Speedmaster and Powr Kraft tools but I have no immediate plans to scan and digitize any pages.

Is there something specific you're looking for?

Brian

Thanks for the offer, but I'm not looking for anything specific from Montgomery Wards. But I do have a Western Auto 3 drawer carry box from the 70s, judging by the logo, I haven't found another picture of one like it.

In my area Wizard and Craftsman are the most common because the local Montgomery Wards was mainly a pick up place for catalog orders and shipping was fairly high.