Friday, July 13, 2007

Tool logos, trademarks, and parent company info... even has the images of the logos!

http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/trademarks-and-logos.html

What is really informative is the list of the patents, by tool marking indexed to the tool company

For example :
Myers, C.H. Patent 288,098
Patent 446,072
Patent 869,255
in the A-M section of http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/site-index.html

Now if you are looking up a wrench that says "model 1226" you click on the "Model 1226" and it then links you to a photo of the wrench and gives info about it.

If you are looking up (Plvmb or Plomb) another source that has a really fast easy guide to what year it was made is http://www.vannattabros.com/plomb/plombtool.html

Plomb tools had a couple interesting varieties stamped with a couple acronyms:
WF  Wright Field items made for the US government.
Ranger AT items made for Fairchild Aviation
PWA items made for Pratt and Whitney.
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