This Hy-Bar has a lot going on with metric sizes on one side and inches on the other along with the offset ends.

That is pretty nice do you think was owner bent.

I don't think so. I haven't looked up the patent to see, but my first guess is no. If that turns out to be wrong though, I will go to my second guess.
Edit: I found it on AA in the Bridgeport section. It is factory bent.

Right in front of me is a little Hy-Bar wrench, no.723,  7/16x3/8, open end, plain steel, about 4 inches long, bent just like that one. 

Does anyone here have a complete set of these?
I have two of them so am wondering how many and what sizes they came in.
Mine are 3/8x7/16 (9mm x 11mm) & 19/32x11/16 (15mm x 18mm).

This should help

From the looks of the wear on the opening , looks like it doesn't fit both metric and SAE very well.
Never seen those before, thanks for posting.

In my experience, 12mm doesn't match 1/2" as well as 13mm does.

Quote from: bill300d on June 11, 2014, 07:35:17 PM
This should help

Thanks Bill, I was looking in all the wrong places (as usual).

Quote from: Papaw on June 11, 2014, 10:16:30 PM
In my experience, 12mm doesn't match 1/2" as well as 13mm does.

Mine, too.

1" = 25.4mm, so 1/2" = 12.7mm.  I've found that metric sets are more universal than S.A.E.

Chilly

I think I have a couple of the flat ones. Have to see if I can find them.

Those were part of the slow introduction of "foreign" cars to the U.S. market - mechanics needed metric wrenches, but many of them were reluctant to do much work on that alien stuff, and sure weren't about to get a full set of metric wrenches for cars that might not be around, since American Iron Will Rule.

Then the American makers started mixing metric and fractional-inch fasteners on their cars...

Haven't seen one of those double-marked wrenches in years.  They never did work well, and they were always (at least in the U.S.) fractional wrenches with the nearest metric "fake", rather than the reverse.  Me, I grew up in a foreign car family, and it never seemed all that weird to have sets of both.  There's a great scene in a comic strip called "Travels with Farley," and later just "Farley," drawn/written by a guy who lived in the next county south, in which Farley discovers that his pet raven Bruce has a full set of both metric and SAE wrenches and sockets and is suitably awed.  I bet  that, if you showed this particular comic to a young mechanic, s/he would wonder what the heck the joke was.

Quote from: Bill Houghton on June 13, 2014, 08:44:46 PM
Those were part of the slow introduction of "foreign" cars to the U.S. market - mechanics needed metric wrenches, but many of them were reluctant to do much work on that alien stuff, and sure weren't about to get a full set of metric wrenches for cars that might not be around, since American Iron Will Rule.

Then the American makers started mixing metric and fractional-inch fasteners on their cars...

Haven't seen one of those double-marked wrenches in years.  They never did work well, and they were always (at least in the U.S.) fractional wrenches with the nearest metric "fake", rather than the reverse.  Me, I grew up in a foreign car family, and it never seemed all that weird to have sets of both.  There's a great scene in a comic strip called "Travels with Farley," and later just "Farley," drawn/written by a guy who lived in the next county south, in which Farley discovers that his pet raven Bruce has a full set of both metric and SAE wrenches and sockets and is suitably awed.  I bet  that, if you showed this particular comic to a young mechanic, s/he would wonder what the heck the joke was.

Umm... is it because ravens can't use wrenches?   

Follow up:

Why did the metric wrench cross the road?   Because Bruce the Raven had to carry it home from Harley's neighbor who borrowed it to fix his nieces Yugo!

Maybe Bruce just ended up with the wrenches when the helpful hardware man thought he heard the raven say "caw-r, caw-r" when Bruce was simply clearing his throat.      

..............."I'll be here all week"
----Chilly----
-----out-----

Nevermore, quoth the raven, nevermore.

(I kill myself)

I know this is a late post, but I just found a 5/8 -- 3/4 over 16 m/m -- 19 m/m HY-BAR by Bridgeport.
Had never seen one before.
Anyone out there need this one to fill in a set?
PM me.