Weatherly Index Questions

[OilyRascal]

I've just recently become aware of something called a "Weatherly Index".  I believe it may have been used to track/organize catalogs.  It is unclear to me the scope of catalogs, but I'm led to believe it does include tool catalogs.

It's all still very unclear to me.  I'm unable to find any meaningful information about it, it's scope, age, or availability.  Does anyone have information they could share about the Weatherly Index?

I'm specifically interested in understanding if you can take a Weatherly Index # from a tool catalog and accurately date it (or gain other information about it).

Thanks in advance!

[Papaw]

Wasn't it primarily a system of organizing parts catalogs for dealers and service departments? I guess some tool catalogs would be included.

[OilyRascal]

The July 1983 K-D tool catalog notes "Weatherly Index #800" on it's cover, as does an undated Thorsen catalog. 

[lbgradwell]

I've seen Proto catalogues too...

[skipskip]

YES!!


for those of us in the auto parts biz,in the 60's and 70's, all the info was in those wonderful

paper books.

Weatherly was like Dewey decimal for them.

and sure we had tool catalogs in the rack too.

we didn't use Weatherly to put them in order, we used  the alphabet cuz no could ever figure out Weatherly worked.

Sure wish I had saved all them books....

[rusty]

>I'm specifically interested in understanding if you can take a Weatherly Index # from a tool catalog and accurately date it (or gain other information about it).

Probably not, from what I am reading, when you get a new catalog with index 400, it replaces obsolete catalog with index 400, so they stay in order at the counter.

So it won't help you date anything.....

On the other hand, googling for 'weatherly index" gets you a boatload of online parts catalogs, since that is printed on the cover of all of them....