GRANTS BREAKER BAR

[Ken W.]

I was at a trappers convention over the weekend and picked up a breaker bar and extension. It's a Grants 3/8 drive  # WTGNO. 5-3608 breaker bar. The ext is # 4119 with a MF in a square. I remember there being a Grants dept. store in Buffalo that closed 35 years ago or more. Do you guy's think its the same Grants ? Can't get a pic up for a couple days.

[mikeswrenches]

There was a W. T. GRANT store when I was a kid.  I think this was a national chain.  It existed in western Pennsylvania for sure. 

Google W.T. Grant.  There is quite a bit of info out there.

Mike

[Wrenchmensch]

The only WT Grant Department Store wrench I've found so far is marked, in 3 lines: MANUFACTURED FOR, W.T. GRANT CO.,25 CENT SEPT. STORE.  It is a standard 10-inch Stillson style pipe wrench. This wrench's most significant variation from better-made wrenches of the same period are its shallow-cut teeth, which would quickly wear down.

[skipskip]

Several WT Grants dept stores here in Albany, last one closed late 70's I think.

Actually the whole chain caved in in 1976.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Grant

Here is my contribution to this topic.


SEP 174 by skipskip, on Flickr

says Chrome Vanadium Drop Forged Japan on the back.

I don't recognize the pattern.