Pics sent to me by a friend. Here's the message that came with it: "Need to pick your brain on car stuff. I have this old/vintage tire iron that was in some of Dad's old toolboxes & I am at least trying to determine what era it is from. The only thing I can make out on it are "Worcester - on the right side; 5660 - on the left side. "Made in U.S.A. Pat Pend No. 16" in small print below Worcester. Any insight on dating this would be so appreciated."
That comes under the heading of cool old tools to hang on the cool old tool pegboard on the shop wall that has cool old stuff displayed on it.
This is a pretty meager example, but mounting these Ford wrenches and a couple of spud wrenches got this stuff out of my way and still visible. None of these were ever going to get actual use anyway. Most of you on here have done this but in a much nicer way. This is just a s**** of particle board shelving and a bunch of drywall screws. It took me about 15 minutes to put together and is a much better place to store this stuff.
I've wondered about how many different Ford wrenches and other specialty tools were made. If you throw in the tools for tractors there had to be hundreds of them.
That's a rabbit hole that I refuse to get deep into! https://www.fordgarage.com/pages/KRWcatalogcovers.htm https://modeltfordfix.com/the-1911-model-t-ford-tool-kit/ As that second link mentions, cars were new on the scene, so tools to fix them were not on every corner. The big tool companies would get a later start too, so Ford would have led the way. Snapon started on 1920 https://collectingsnapon.com/category/catalogs-1923-1929/
Funny in Australia we call them podgers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podger_spanner No idea why but scaffolders use them.
is the master ******** in the adverti*****t an early msd ( you need to click on the picture of the tool on the upper left to get the full page ad )
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