Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: international3414 on November 17, 2017, 06:34:49 PM
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could it be massy ferguson tia
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Millers Falls???????
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I have Vise Grips marked P&C and Proto. I have other re badged Vice Grips out in the very cold garage. It seems V.G made locking pliers for other tools companies. I have also seen modified V.G. pliers being sold by other companies with the V.G. name on them.
EvilDr235
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I'm pretty sure that's a Miller's Falls mark.
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here it is.https://www.trademarkia.com/company-millers-falls-company-812047-page-1-2 (https://www.trademarkia.com/company-millers-falls-company-812047-page-1-2)
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dont know why i wasnt thinking millers falls...thanks again
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My guess is they were made by Vise Grip for M.F. It is done all the time for one tool company to make tools for another company. They above locking pliers are to perfect of a copy of V.G. not to have been made by them. Also I am offended by Irwin calling their Vise Grip pliers THE ORIGINAL, when the tools are made from global parts and put together in the U.S. and marked Made in U.S.A.
Pizzed off in Vancouver South.
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Petersen Mfg. of DeWitt, NE was the originator of the Vise-Grip. American Tool Co. was formed by a member of the Petersen family and was a corporate umbrella for several formerly family owned tool companies including IRWIN, which had been best known as a maker of bits. When Newell Rubbermaid bought American Tool Co., they kept the Vise-Grip brand but discarded Petersen Mfg. Some corporate type thought IRWIN was a better known name and eventually put that together with the Vise-Grip brand. But the quality of the tools appears not to have been a concern.