Ford script tools

Joined: Feb 5, Posts: Profile Page. Tsquared , Aug 18, Joined: Jan 29, Posts: 8, Profile Page. Lots of info on these over on the Fordbarn.

Joined: Oct 9, Posts: 21, Profile Page. The smaller one is a regular toolkit open end I think yours is the late sort, but hard to tell without handling it. For basic wrenches like the open ends, car and tractor got same ones, with other parts of the toolkit being more specialized. The fat wrench is very interesting I think it is very old, maybe first few years of Model T.

Bruce Lancaster , Aug 19, Joined: Nov 20, Posts: 2, Profile Page. Joined: Jan 30, Posts: Profile Page. I like the fact that Henry went to great trouble so that no one could copy his design. If you notice, the letters on the tools are raised. That is a harder process than most tools with the letters sunk in and it set Ford tools apart from the rest.

Henry strived to be in a league of his own, and he certainly was. Posted using the Full Custom H. Wike , Aug 19, Same wrenches, mostly from M and circle M and K suppliers, but no Ford logo. Ford apparently made some of this stuff itself, though most standard type tools came from those forges, and those few would still have been script. I think this was some sort of foolishness prompted by European copyright rules Stamped rather than forged-in scripts appear on all sorts of things--I have an elderly Snap-on socket so scripted, for instance If you were caught with script scissors in your lunchbox, Harry Bennett came right downstairs and dragged you out back for a makeover Bruce Lancaster , Aug 20, Joined: Dec 13, Posts: 2, Profile Page.

SAM , Aug 20, Joined: Jul 2, Posts: 2, Profile Page. A machine shop I worked at one time had a set of precision gauge blocks Jo blocks that had the Ford oval emblem, a persons name and the title "Toolmaker" underneath the name, all engraved into each piece. It would be quite a feather in your hat to have a set of those with your own name on them I would think. Wolfcreek-Steve , Aug 20, Never saw any Ford scissors! The Jo blocks were THE standard for dimensions of everything, and all factory gauging and machining was checked against them.

Ford was I think the driving force in making them the universal standard Ford wrenches and other tools existed on 3 levels: Car toolkits As a historic note Ford designed and patented a simplified timing fixture to be welded to the firewall of '34 Fords as a standard fixture Z series tools Do they have any children? Now focus on their answers… ask more questions… sit back and listen.

How long have they been in that occupation? What did they do before? Something they always wanted to try or do? Now focus on their answers… ask more questions… sit back and listen beginning to see a pattern here? Your dreams? Home Agents Boost Blog F. Walden is not known to have had much if any drop-forging capabilities and therefore turned to other companies, in this case Moore Drop Forging, when forged parts were needed.

The shank is marked with the "Ford" script name forged into the top, with the M-Circle logo and a "50" code forged into the reverse. This was a very familiar wrench for Ford Model T owners, as it was intended for servicing head bolts and spark plugs. The finish is plain steel with traces of the original black paint. As long as we're showing examples of contract production by Moore Drop Forging, it's worth noting that there were other companies using a similar "M" forge mark without the circle that made comparable tools for Ford.

The wrench is marked with "M" and the model number forged into the reverse shank see lower inset. We currently don't have any further information on these other drop-forge operators, so we'll leave this tool here for now. The Formation of Easco In Moore Drop Forging was acquired by the Eastern Stainless Steel Corporation, a maker of stainless and specialty steels, and by the company had been restructured as the Easco Corporation.

Trademarks In the company filed a trademark application for their M-Circle logo, with the first use listed as Used for drop forgings and stampings.

References and Resources Photographs and observations of particular tools are based on items in the Alloy Artifacts collection. Contract Production In this section we'll show some examples of contract production by Moore Drop Forging.

Other Production Easily Mistaken for Moore Drop Forging As long as we're showing examples of contract production by Moore Drop Forging, it's worth noting that there were other companies using a similar "M" forge mark without the circle that made comparable tools for Ford.