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Tool: A Greene Tweed Speed Indicator with 1892 Patent Date

Started by Wrenchmensch, October 06, 2012, 04:25:37 PM

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Wrenchmensch

Here is a Speed Indicator patented by Greene, Tweed & Company November 22, 1892.  The nickel plating is intact, and the attached bell rings every 100 revolutions.  The presentation box it came in is labeled "With James Kowden's Compliments" At this point in Greene, Tweed's long history (from 1863 to the present) they made tools, graphite packings, hammers, cast brass hinges and drawer pulls, speed indicators, and coal furnace clocks.

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Papaw

Great piece, Bob!
I like to see the old ones kept in good shape.
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rusty


Don't know if I am more impressed with the indicator, ...or the nice box it came in.

Very nice :)
Just a weathered light rust/WD40 mix patina.