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Being something of a history buff and a big fan of Proto tools, I felt compelled to share this article. The gentleman spent several years researching the history of his favorite brand of tools. He is now terminally ill and I felt I owed it to him to share this. Not sure if the link works so you may have to copy and paste the address. Enjoy.
Wow that is pretty cool. I am going to read through this site. Do you know him?
Never met the guy. I just stumbled upon this during my Internet tool quest. Having known that Proto descended from plomb it caught my eye.
Great find
Very interesting. should be submitted to Wikipedia as well, so it will live on.
If you all like old wrenches you should know about Alloy Artifacts http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/index.html One of those websites that can easily kill an afternoon or evening…
There are a bunch of old tool websites if your interested.
Now that you mention it, I bumped into that site when I was researching that Lakeside pipe wrench. Meant to go back and browse around but I forgot about it. Guess I’ll have to check it out.
Vintage Machinery AKA Old Wood Working Machines is another good site. http://vintagemachinery.org