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Buying, Selling, and Trading => The Missing Link => Topic started by: B. Harris on August 18, 2012, 01:01:24 PM

Title: Identification and Location needed please
Post by: B. Harris on August 18, 2012, 01:01:24 PM
Hello Forum,

I am trying to identify and locate this set of pliers. All I have is this photograph and a length of
 7 1/2 inchs.  There are no markings.

They came form a WWII Canadian Bren Gun Carrier tool kit that was just unwrapped 3 years ago from 1945 storage.

Any help or suggestions are helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Bruce from Canada.

Title: Re: Identification and Location needed please
Post by: Papaw on August 18, 2012, 01:31:16 PM
Welcome to Tool Talk!
We have some gun enthusiasts here, so someone will soon help you out.
I guess you haven't cleaned off the cosmoline to see if there are really no markings.
Title: Re: Identification and Location needed please
Post by: lbgradwell on August 18, 2012, 02:36:50 PM
(http://www.kox.sk/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/4.jpg)

Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl welcomes you and suggests Gray to be a likely manufacturer of those pliers given the company's known wartime contracting.

Possibly model B8?
Title: Re: Identification and Location needed please
Post by: B. Harris on August 20, 2012, 12:13:57 PM
Papaw,

Thanks for the reply regrading the pliers. As I have the vehicle I am completing research on the tool kit. NOT so much the firearms end of it.

I do not own the set illustrated in the picture and I cannot convice the owner to de-cosmo them..YET!

So again all I have to go on is the 71/2" length and no markings....

Are there any Bonney-Gray tool folks here with a 1939-1945 product cat. they would like to share.

Ronnie,
Thank you for your reply as well...do you have nay examples of B8's to compare? Any Canadian contacts who are knowledgeable in this product up here. (BTW..I am in SW Ontario, Lake Huron side)


Thanks to all,
Bruce
Title: Re: Identification and Location needed please
Post by: lbgradwell on August 20, 2012, 12:23:43 PM
No B8 for comparison, but some catalogues to share...

1941:

mediafire.com/download.php?lnajwea7cl956j3 (http://mediafire.com/download.php?lnajwea7cl956j3)

1948:

http://www.mediafire.com/?40r2tnj54iuapf3 (http://www.mediafire.com/?40r2tnj54iuapf3)

1950:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?86wl9navnn03cn1 (http://www.mediafire.com/view/?86wl9navnn03cn1)
Title: Re: Identification and Location needed please
Post by: 1930 on September 27, 2012, 05:19:58 PM
Quote from: lbgradwell on August 18, 2012, 02:36:50 PM
(http://www.kox.sk/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/4.jpg)

Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl welcomes you and suggests Gray to be a likely manufacturer of those pliers given the company's known wartime contracting.

Possibly model B8?
Excuse me please if Im breakin any rules but damn that biatch is hot :)
Title: Re: Identification and Location needed please
Post by: lbgradwell on September 27, 2012, 06:27:14 PM
Quote from: 1930 on September 27, 2012, 05:19:58 PM
Excuse me please if Im breakin any rules but damn that biatch is hot :)

LOL!

Her real name was Veronica Foster. She worked at the Inglis factory in downtown Toronto that produced Bren guns for the war effort.

http://gorole.gunownersresource.com/index.php?title=Veronica_Foster (http://gorole.gunownersresource.com/index.php?title=Veronica_Foster)

In 1943 she became the lead vocalist in a Canadian big band called Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen. Here she is at the mic:

(http://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2010/01/99904380-1.jpg)

She died in 2000.