TRW Wrenches

[EOC_Jason]

I seem to remember reading a while back someone was wanting to see what the TRW brand wrenches look like...

Last year I bought this set from an old man dying of cancer, sadly. 13/16" thru 1-1/4". He worked mostly on fixing up riding mowers and small tractors in his little shop.

Still has a sticker on one of them. Hmm... No time limit warranty? Who do I go to for that now? lol...

They are solid, feel good, nothing fancy, can't really complain.

For scale they are laying on a 2x8 (dark board) and a 2x6 (lighter / muddy board)

 

[jakemac]

They look like a mix between a Williams and a Cman RP.

 

[vssjim]

TRW actually owned Williams Tool on Vulcan Street in Buffalo NY and also made Vulcan tools for tool truck sales. TRW branded tools was brought out as a last ditch effort to sell through automotive parts and tool warehouses for a limited tool line that were fast moving popular tools to save Williams that was almost always sold in Industrial sales outlets. I still have some after TRW got tired of owning them sold off to snap on that moved them to Georgia and abandoned the old factory.

 

[four.cycle]

^ During the orgiastic era of corporate mergers and takeovers in the mid-1980's TRW owned all kinds of companies, and then a few years later either shut them down or sold them off to other companies. They had always been the "blue chip standard" in automotive parts (like Clevite bearings), but after that it went to hell in a handbasket.

Niehoff was a great product line until TRW bought them.

 

[6PTsocket]

^ During the orgiastic era of corporate mergers and takeovers in the mid-1980's TRW owned all kinds of companies, and then a few years later either shut them down or sold them off to other companies. They had always been the "blue chip standard" in automotive parts (like Clevite bearings), but after that it went to hell in a handbasket.

Niehoff was a great product line until TRW bought them.

I just checked fo see if TRW was still around. I googled and was informed "we've moved". TRW was bought by ZF Freidrichshaft AG. in 2015. Is that the ZF transmission people?

Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk