Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Wrenchmensch on August 01, 2011, 02:21:45 PM
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I believe this nickel-plated 7 5/8" adjustable wrench is an old-time motorcycle wrench, with a tire removal tip. Can anyone identify the logo clearly stamped at the top?
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I can see clearly that there is a logo there, but that is about where the clarity ends. Any idea what it is supposed to be?
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Think it is one of the "Snail" logos?
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Could be, might be turned wrong side up or something. It looks more like the NBC peacock than anything. That's a tough one.
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It's not this snail logo:
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/snaillogo.jpg)
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You guys gave it a good effort. To me, the logo looks like a bunch of cherries, or lichee nuts, or longan, in which case the logo might be from the Far East. Are we collectively out of our depth on this one; are we ready to chalk this one up as a beautifully finished orphan with an unknown logo? Whaddya think?
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No other markings of any kind?
Although it's an "auto-wrench", I've never actually seen one quite like it and I'm a bit surprised it hasn't been IDed yet given that uniqueness...
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I've seen that logo someplace before. I just can't remember where. Annoying!
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Looks like part of a chrysanthemum flower, or a statue of Buddha.
Therefore Japanese. Maybe from one of their motorcycle manufacturers.
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CCould it be a distorted version of this klogo (look at the small versions shown on tools further down on the page)...might be a reach...
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/metalware/general/shaw2.htm
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I think I see the llogo you mmight be referring to. Good page anyway. I love the original 'wireless' tools poster at the very bottom.
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Buddha? Snail Brand logo? Distorted "Governor" symbol? These are all well within the parameters of a working definition for the term SWAG. As Pete Rathbone, Bus and other wrench worthies have wisely concluded, there are Orphans in the wrench world. This beautifully finished bicycle/motorcycle wrench is hereby accorded "Orphan" status for the nonce.
It may turn out that this is a wrench for a rarely-exported motorcycle made somewhere, and some time ago, in the Far East, say China, North Korea, or Southeast Asia. The stamped image is botanical not mechanical,
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I have been researching the obscure logo on this wrench today. I can, under a magnifying glass, define a stylized "SB" in the lower part of the logo. If that is in fact the maker's intention, the wrench could have been made for something with tires produced by Scripps-Booth. Does anyone have any tools from a Scripps-Booth auto tool kit?
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Wow, I've looked for an hour... can't find that damn logo...... great, I'll be dreaming of finding it tonight!!!!!
cheers, bird
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I found plenty on Scripps and the auto business, but nothing on that logo. They were responsible for some strange designs in autos.
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Noel:
The Scripps-Booth 20-foot long V-8 motorcycle was their strangest creation by far. Outside of that, the only Scripps-Booth things I ever saw were Scripps-Booth inboard marine engines (conversions?) on old mahogany speedboats.
Bob
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Not even close.
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Yep! I saw the Scripps-Booth emblem yesterday, and it would be a stretch to interpret the strange hieroglyph stamped on my pretty wrench as a serious interpretation of that emblem.
So what is this wrench's provenance? It is too well made to be just a "one off".
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Nope, it's not a one off. I *have* seen the logo before -- kinda hard to forget -- but I sure forgot who it was.
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Here is the Auto-Go
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Bi-Autogo.jpg/679px-Bi-Autogo.jpg)