Park Manufacturing tool box

[Branson]

Pictures will follow tomorrow, but I thought I'd give a chance to think about Park Manufacturing tool boxes.  Can't find much on them, especially since Park is the name of a major bicycle tool firm these days.  This weekend, I picked up a Park Manufacturing model 84449 tool box.  It's long enough to carry a saw, and has brackets inside to hold a level.  I'd like to know more about it and the company.  One site I checked out suggested that PM made tool boxes for Sears Craftsman.

[eddie hudson]

Is that the same Park Manufacturing from Orchard Park NY?

[Branson]

Is that the same Park Manufacturing from Orchard Park NY?

Nope.  It's Park Mfg. Co. Grant Park, Ill.

[Craig]

  I just got one of these tool boxes too and am curious as to what it was for. I plan to use it as a chainsaw toolbox so if anyone has info as to it's original purpose please let us know.

[Ken W.]

I have 3 Park tool boxes. 2 have 2 drawers and 1 has a tray. I find these very well built boxes.

[Bill Houghton]

  I just got one of these tool boxes too and am curious as to what it was for. I plan to use it as a chainsaw toolbox so if anyone has info as to it's original purpose please let us know.

If you mean the long box with the saw and level holders, it's a carpenter's jobsite box, from the days when a good carpenter needed at least two handsaws, one crosscut, one rip.

[rusty]

>Is that the same Park Manufacturing from Orchard Park NY?
Park Metalware, not manufacturing (Xcelite > 1952)

[Ken W.]

Nope.Different Park.