Garage Find: Specialized Tools For Working On Fords - Dating Back to Model T!

[Ingridthehorrible]

Been reorganizing the garage, I came some old tools that membership might find interesting, some date back to approx 1915 - 1917, use for working on Model T's.

These are what our geat grandfathers and for some of you your great - great - great grandfathers would have been wrenching with.

Edit 1/3/2023 Added some additional tools and details

Frank Mossberg No. 30 socket set.

Below insert from the website http://alloy-artifacts.org/frank-mossberg-company.html

And the former state of the art for cordless drills

And another set, that most likely dates back to the 30's or 40's, haven't been able to identify the manufacturer yet. Edit, identified the manufacturer, New Britain, Brand None Better No. 536W 1/2-Drive Socket Set dates to the early to mid 1930.

Insert below from website http://alloy-artifacts.org/newbritain-nonebetter.html#dates

Edit; In response to the comments as to the metric ones not being represented. I located the metric set from the time period of the 1910 to 1920 time period. Can't exactly date them, but from researching today they appear to be from that time period. Don't want to remove the patina to find any marking.

And as to the 10mm size always going missing, the trick is to adjust them to different size before laying them down so the metric 10mm tool bandit doesn't make them disappear.

Old brass hammer, couldn't find any details from researching today, end of handle is hollow and unscrews for punch storage

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[Karl_in_Chicago]

Very cool, thanks for sharing! But . . . no metric?

 

[AK SNO RIDER]

Very cool

 

[LockedBronco]

Very cool, thanks for sharing! But . . . no metric?

If there was 10mm would be missing

 

[flip]

On of our guys found a tool from 1939 in the cabinet a couple months ago. We've been a Ford dealer since 1921 so bunch of old stuff hiding around in different places. Here's a good book to look older special tools up by casting number.

https://archive.org/details/1953-manzel-tools-equipment-bflo-ny

 

[cbrenthus]

Very cool tools! Here is a picture of specialized tools you need to work on modern Fords

 

[lakesinai]

Been reorganizing the garage, I came some old tools that membership might find interesting, some date back to approx 1915 - 1917, use for working on Model T's.

These are what our geat grandfathers and for some of you your great - great - great grandfathers would have been wrenching with.

Frank Mossberg No. 30 socket set.

Below insert from the website http://alloy-artifacts.org/frank-mossberg-company.html

And the former state of the art for cordless drills

And another set, that most likely dates back to the 30's or 40's, haven't been able to identify the manufacturer yet.

It's interesting that the walls of the early sockets are thinner, and six-sided, while later sockets are round on the outside and hexagonal on the inside . . . Is that to make thrm stronger, or easier to cast? Were the earlier ones still cast? History of tool-making!

 

[broadicustomworks]

Really cool find!
Makes me really appreciate the advancements in tools (can you imagine having to use the hand-crank drill often?).
Relatively.
Old stuff lasted a LONG time and chances are when you do find it at an auction or estate sale, the stuff still works.

 

[LABlueBronco]

Very cool tools! Here is a picture of specialized tools you need to work on modern Fords

You mean owning one. I'm a Ford guy, btw. Just not with bad product and Ford being quiet about it.

 

[MayhemMike]

Model T wrenches are every where.

 

[Area51BS]

Really cool find!
Makes me really appreciate the advancements in tools (can you imagine having to use the hand-crank drill often?).
Relatively.
Old stuff lasted a LONG time and chances are when you do find it at an auction or estate sale, the stuff still works.

I can remember cutting off a screwdriver and placing it in an electric drill. Corded screw gun!

 

[Ingridthehorrible]

Very cool, thanks for sharing! But . . . no metric?

If there was 10mm would be missing

Edited the original post to address your comments about the metric sizes and the missing 10mm

 

[Ingridthehorrible]

It's interesting that the walls of the early sockets are thinner, and six-sided, while later sockets are round on the outside and hexagonal on the inside . . . Is that to make thrm stronger, or easier to cast? Were the earlier ones still cast? History of tool-making!

The description that I found stated six-sided sockets sockets in the Mossberg set were pressed steel.

 

[Gettyup]

Cool. I remember my Dad having some like them. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Gabby]

For me, it'd be my gandfather. My great grandfather was dead before Ford finally duplicated Cadillac's production line. But tools of that age are something else. Doing with horses or men what we do with LiON batteries.

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