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Title: Mack Truck wrenches made by Williams
Post by: Wrenchmensch on June 01, 2011, 04:00:24 PM

These Williams wrenches are circa 1917 editions, and each one is stamped with the Mack truck logo.  The (Williams) numbers, from top down, are 75, 79S, 83A, 81A.  American wrenches for a great American product!

Does anybody else have a numbered Mack S-wrench beyond these?

Title: Re: Mack Truck wrenches made by Williams
Post by: Papaw on June 01, 2011, 04:03:38 PM

I don't have any, but seems someone showed one on Tool Talk a couple of years ago.

Title: Re: Mack Truck wrenches made by Williams
Post by: 1930 on June 01, 2011, 06:58:00 PM

Those are great looking wrenches

Title: Re: Mack Truck wrenches made by Williams
Post by: J.A.F.E. on June 01, 2011, 08:15:33 PM

Quote from: Papaw on June 01, 2011, 04:03:38 PM

I don't have any, but seems someone showed one on Tool Talk a couple of years ago.

I posted this one sometime back and in another thread recently.

(http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq235/mcpfstevo/100_1158.jpg)

Title: Re: Mack Truck wrenches made by Williams
Post by: keykeeper on June 01, 2011, 09:01:41 PM

I had one I posted on the old site, but I've sold it since.

Didn't Mack make automobiles, also?

Title: Re: Mack Truck wrenches made by Williams
Post by: Wrenchmensch on June 02, 2011, 07:26:45 AM

I did some checking, and it appears that the Reo Motorcar Co. of Lansing, Michigan made a Mack Jr. truck in 1936-37.  Mack trucks have been made since 1911.  The names of the company over the years are: International Motor Co. (1911-36), Mack Manufacturing Corp. (1937-1956), and Mack Trucks, Inc. (1956 to date).  I could find no record of a Mack car.

Source: The American Car since 1775 by the Editors of Automobile Quarterly, 1971.

Title: Re: Mack Truck wrenches made by Williams
Post by: jimwrench on June 02, 2011, 01:02:43 PM

 Nationals Red Book-Blue book Autobiography Lists a "Mack" car for 1900 only. Lists the Mack truck as 1900 forward.

Title: Re: Mack Truck wrenches made by Williams
Post by: jwitt on June 04, 2011, 04:51:28 PM

I just posted this one in another tread #633
(http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss253/thosewitts/000_0013.jpg)

Title: Re: Mack Truck wrenches made by Williams
Post by: OilyRascal on July 12, 2012, 12:47:50 AM

Love these wrenches!  Thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: Mack Truck wrenches made by Williams
Post by: Wrenchmensch on July 12, 2012, 04:48:06 PM

Williams always tried  to satisfy Mack Truck as a customer.  Williams made two different weights of 83  S-wrenches for Mack Truck. Mack's 83 wrench weighs 2.15 ozs. (13%) more that the same-opening sized 83A S-wrench also made by Williams for Mack. 

When somebody at Mack wanted a larger-sized Mack logo stamped on the Williams 79S, Williams obliged. Keeping an important customer satisfied no doubt contributed to the longevity of the Williams wrench business.