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Thorsen = Taiwan now ?

Packard V8

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Anyone know about how long ago new Thorsen branded tools started coming out of Taiwan?

thnx, jack vines
 
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harrycaul

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My guess was mid-Eighties and this Craftsman Club post seems to confirm that:
Yes you are correct. Thorsen did move to Texas, to be exact, Fort Worth, Texas. The Thorsen Facility was a abbriviated manufacturing facility, with I beleive about 50% of it's manufacutring subcontracted out.

I had a few years back, the last year that Thorsen produced a catalog of U.S. made tools.

This was about 1988. A aerial photo (artist) was posted in the inside jacket as I recall.

I think Thorsen jetisoned this plant to Martin Manufacutring Company(Precision Gears) of Fort Worth, which is about the time Martin began making hand tools.
 
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