Robertson Branded Screwdrivers

[Chilliwack Murray]

I’m sure someone can fill in some information on these screwdrivers that belonged to my Dad. I’ve looked around the internet and can’t find anything. I don’t know much about them except they seemed old when I was a kid in the 70s. I think they are made by Robertson and I know they are early 60s or older and saved them from the bin a number of times over the years.






Stubby Red Robertson has a plastic handle that feels high quality. The end has Robertson Screws #89 stamped in it.



The green Robertson’s have wooden handles - the stubby has no markings except PAT’D but the standard driver has the following on the shaft:

 

[captain14]

https://www.thomasnet.com/articles/hardware/robertson-screwdriver-history/

Try this to start. Flat blade screwdrivers always allowed the blade to slip.

 

[The Cobbler]

I have one of my late fathers green pear shaped screwdriver, the blade is longer.I remember it as a kid, a few years ago.

 

[Jazz1]

I see old wooden handled screw drivers at RESTORE. My recollection of wooden handles is cracked or loose handles. A screwdriver is a screwdriver until it becomes a chisel. I do have the same red stubby Robertson in one of my truck tool boxes.

 

[Farmer J.]

There is some information on the Robertson screws on the internet here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Robertson

First time I saw these I remember them in Ottawa in 1980 when an elderly relative took me to see a friend of his who he was helping to build a 40' wooden sailboat in the back garden of his suburban house. (When the boat was built they lifted it over the house with a crane, took by road it to the St Lawrence, and sailed it around the world in happy retirement) He was using Robertson Screws to build it and gave me one as a souvenir which I still have.
A few years later I saw his Son in Calgary and I think he said that the Robertson Screws came in 3 different drive sizes and the colours of the genuine Robertson screwdrivers were different depending upon the drive size of the tip.

 

[lilredex]

There is only one screw head in Canada.....Robertson.

Yellow, green.red and black are the common sized ones you see. If it is designed/built for the Canadian market, it will have Robertson fasteners.

https://www.thomasnet.com/articles/hardware/robertson-screwdriver-history/

 

[Chilliwack Murray]

Another bit of Canadian tool history... full set of Tecomaster combination wrenches from Eatons. Back when department stores had their own brands for most everything.

They were bought in 1975 or 76 and are identical to Westward and some Craftsmen I have of the same age.

 

[bubinga]

Awesome!

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

I had forgot about the Tecomaster line of tools. I have a variety of tools, but no TM.
Thanks for sharing.