For years, the only screwdrivers I'd use were the Australian made Stanley and the occasional Australian made Turner. These were pretty much the standard screwdriver that every decent handy man or mechanic in Australia would use. The same screwdrivers were part of the government issued tool box I got when I was starting my electronics trade training in the early 70s.
I bought a number of sets plus individual screwdrivers over the years, and the only ones I no longer have in my collection are not missing because they'd failed, but because I'd lost it, or it'd been "borrowed" (air traffic controllers were notorious for borrowing tools from open technician's tool boxes), or I'd modified it to do a specialized, one-off task, or the dog had decided that the handle was a wonderful chew toy. Even now, some of the chewed handle screwdrivers are still in my collection, although the handle has been cleaned up either in a lathe or by hand shaping.
Sometime, I'd guess it was in the 90s, they changed the design of the handles, and I never liked the feel of the new handled Stanley drivers, but they were still good tools. These days the Stanley drivers are Chinese junk.
My father, on the other hand, worked on the principle that any screwdriver that came close to fitting the screw was good enough. I'd buy him good sets of Stanleys, and yet everytime I'd see him using a screwdriver, it'd be some piece of junk with a really soft blade and a badly moulded and fragile transparent hard plastic handle. The good Stanleys were still in their packaging as he considered them too good to use.
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