It's always a good sign when there's only a picture from a parts manual in Rathbones book and not a picture of an actual wrench. I sure am glad to have found this one. Any idea what this wrench would have came with Bus?

Upon further study, check page 270 of volume 2. There in lies the problem with somebody guessing where wrenches belong and printing a book about them. He really jumped the gun with the first book, should have had more proof on a lot of the wrenches he put in there. He has the part # listed for both in the supplement, without parts books in hand I don't know what is right.

Don't have volume 2 with me. What's it showing as? That's a picture from a parts manual for sure tho.

Carl,

volume # 1 shows "Ohio Rake"

volume # 2 shoes "Stoddard"

volume # 3 neither

Frank

With both companies being in Dayton, OHIO I imagine that they may have merged at some point or been under the same umbrella somehow.

I don't think they were under the same umbrella, at one point they sued each other over a patent. Stoddard decided to play with automobiles becoming Maxwell , later the factory went to Dodge Bros.

Ohio Rake just seems to vanish without a trace...

I suppose Stoddard may have dumped ag impliments when it decided to play with automobiles, in which case Ohio may have aquired some articles made previously by Stoddard...but only speculation...

Edit:

Worth noting perhaps that Ohio Rake seems to have liked picking up machine lines from others.
They are listed as having aquired a Corn seeder and a harrow from Gale, Sulky & Walking plows from Moore Plow & Impl. co, and Cultivators and Disc Harrows from Collins.