Who made these wrenches?

[David Jackson]

If this is a duplicate post I apologize, after closing the preview the thread disappeared!
Anyway I wonder who made these three wrenches, two OE and one S style.
The OEs could have been part of a tool kit which came with a car, tractor, etc.? That's just a wild guess as the letters and spacing almost match early Vlcheck and one other company's forgings though there is no maker's mark in the casting. The number 65 on one end of one of the wrenches dates it (them) as pretty early, 20s? I doubt they are worth anything much but it would be fun to know who made them.

The S wrench, on the other hand, does have a maker's mark in the forging as well as what might be a catalog number. The maker's mark does not match anything in Alloy Archives' list.

Just curious. I've had these for a while, don't remember how I got them or why; just like old stuff I guess.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The two DROP FORGED wrenches are Vlchek contract wrenches. They made thousands and thousands of them. The half-S offset looks like International Harvester. EDIT: I was hedging with Chicago Mfg & Distr., but it's not their logo.

 

[David Jackson]

Thanks Lugz,

I thought the two DROP FORGED might be Vlcheck. The letter spacing seems just a little different than the one early Vlcheck I have - but I have no idea really how the molds were made. By "contract wrenches" do you mean ones made to be part of a kit or something such as that? There is no way to know, at this point, what kit they were part of I suppose, not that it would matter much. I gather that Vlcheck was one huge player in the tool market at one time.

The S one, IH occured to me; I imagine some other company made it for IH; could that one too, have been part of a kit of some kind, or would the IH dealer have sold it (along with many others one would suppose)?

 

[David Jackson]

Hi Lugz,

Found IH wrench for sale on ebay and your mark call seems accurate. Also found a site which showed an OE like mine as part of a Chevrolet tool kit which actually came with the car, so you are absolutely right about that one too.

DJ

 

[DadsTools]

The s-wrench logo definitely International Harvester. I have vintage IH farm machinery parts with the exact same mark.