Tool Talk
Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: Northwoods on March 03, 2020, 09:49:48 PM
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Walden Worcester. Hmph, never heard of them..?
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What I have manager to learn: Walden Worcester from the state of Massachusetts was a very prominent manufacturer of automotive specialty tools. The company started as the Walden Manufacturing Company in 1906 and was created by F E and Charles Walden. Unfortunately, they went out of business sometimes between 1990 and 2000.
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Copes book page 319. Organized 1906 as Waldon Manufacturing Company bought by Warren Bellows in 1907 and reorganized as Walden-Worchester Inc in 1914. Additional information given in Copes entry.
In 1926 the company was consolidated with Stevens & Company to form Stevens-Walden-Worchester Inc
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I think they made assembly tools for Ford?
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Alloy Artifacts has a good time line history of Walden-Worcester ( http://alloy-artifacts.org/walden-worcester.html#history ). Most of the major wrench makers would do contract production & that customer could stamp their brand on the tools. For example, there was a
"BROWNBILT" brand of wire handle sockets all of which look identical to comparable Walden-Worcester.
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While checking through my ratchets today (I do this every few years to check for rust) I came across this ratchet. It is a Truth which became Owatonna Tool Co. Truth made Co-op tools, and I have a Co-op socket set with the same ratchet in it. However, the Co-op ratchet although being the same is not marked.
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While checking through my ratchets today (I do this every few years to check for rust) I came across this ratchet. It is a Truth which became Owatonna Tool Co. Truth made Co-op tools, and I have a Co-op socket set with the same ratchet in it. However, the Co-op ratchet although being the same is not marked.
Thanks, Coolford. I passed the info on to the facebook guy who originally posted the pictures. You get an attaboy.