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Title: Tool: A Greene Tweed Speed Indicator with 1892 Patent Date
Post by: Wrenchmensch on October 06, 2012, 04:25:37 PM

Here is a Speed Indicator patented by Greene, Tweed & Company November 22, 1892.  The nickel plating is intact, and the attached bell rings every 100 revolutions.  The presentation box it came in is labeled "With James Kowden's Compliments" At this point in Greene, Tweed's long history (from 1863 to the present) they made tools, graphite packings, hammers, cast brass hinges and drawer pulls, speed indicators, and coal furnace clocks.

Title: Re: Tool: A Greene Tweed Speed Indicator with 1892 Patent Date
Post by: Lostmind on October 06, 2012, 05:45:43 PM

First one I've seen , Nice piece

Title: Re: Tool: A Greene Tweed Speed Indicator with 1892 Patent Date
Post by: Papaw on October 06, 2012, 07:09:25 PM

Great piece, Bob!
I like to see the old ones kept in good shape.

Title: Re: Tool: A Greene Tweed Speed Indicator with 1892 Patent Date
Post by: rusty on October 07, 2012, 11:15:32 AM

Don't know if I am more impressed with the indicator, ...or the nice box it came in.

Very nice :)