Wrenches made for one comapny

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I was looking up P-S wrenches (Page-Storms, I learned) and AA had this sentence:

Fig. 177 shows a Page-Storms 3/4x13/16 open-end wrench made for Crompton & Knowles, stamped "Crompton & Knowles Loom Works" on the shank, with the PS-Oval logo on the reverse face.

My question is, I have several wrenches labelled for companies that made other products,was this a common practice?

Did you need to buy a metric ton of tools to get  them labelled?

I assume it was to keep tools from 'wandering off' the company works.

Anyone collect these?

Skip

[leg17]

Crompton Knowles probably supplied the wrench with their machine.

[turnnut]

Crompton Knowles was in Worcester, Mass. a big company with many workers.
these companies did not mfg. tools, they depended on a dependable tool mfg. it was cheaper to have them
made than to set up their own tool making shop. Page Storms was not too far away, they were in Chicopee, Mass,
then they sold out to Moore Drop Forge in Springfield, Mass. which is right next to Chicopee.

same with many wrench patentees, they either sold their patent or jobbed it out, to a company with the machinery and knowledge..

take Ford motor co. Walden made many of their tools.

same with old farm implement companies, many jobbed out their wrench mfgr's 

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Crompton Knowles probably supplied the wrench with their machine.

Doh!! Like the wrench that came with your John Deere tractor

[bill300d]

Crompton Knowles was the largest manufacturer of looms for textile and furnished tools to adjust and repair said looms.  I have a small pile of them but some of mine resemble J H Williams while some were made by Page Storm. I wonder what constituted a full set, I may be close?

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i have 3 Compton Knowles and 2 David Furber wrenches

I bet there are others out there

DSCF3446 by Skip Albright, on Flickr


DSCF3447 by Skip Albright, on Flickr

[strik9]

My primary focus is mechanics tools but a few loom pattern wrenches and one for a Chandler-Pierce printing press snuck in.   Tool post style wrenches a plenty as the local industry here had been needing them in the sugar cane related machines.

    Tool migration in in play here of course but there are still two C-P printing presses in use downtown.   They made the same basic model for nearly 40 years after all.