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Farm and Implement Wrenches and Tools => Farm Implement Wrenches and Tools => Topic started by: michigancraig on January 11, 2013, 09:56:15 AM

Title: King wrench
Post by: michigancraig on January 11, 2013, 09:56:15 AM

(http://<a href="http://s728.beta.photobucket.com/user/specialedmichigan/media/industrialironstuffwwwb-c-ebiz006-1_zps15c360c1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww286/specialedmichigan/industrialironstuffwwwb-c-ebiz006-1_zps15c360c1.jpg" border="0" alt="king wrench"/></a>)

7 1/2" overall long 5/8" & 3/4" ends
What was this for?
Craig

Title: Re: King wrench
Post by: michigancraig on January 11, 2013, 09:57:01 AM

http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww286/specialedmichigan/industrialironstuffwwwb-c-ebiz006-1_zps15c360c1.jpg
direct link to the picture
Craig
(http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww286/specialedmichigan/industrialironstuffwwwb-c-ebiz006-1_zps15c360c1.jpg)

Title: Re: King wrench
Post by: crankshaftdan II on January 13, 2013, 09:37:32 AM

Nice find-don't believe that I have ever ran across a King wrench-maybe a offshoot of a "KingDick" english wrench???

Title: Re: King wrench
Post by: rusty on January 13, 2013, 10:51:04 AM

Perhaps King Motor Car Company ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_(automobile)

Title: Re: King wrench
Post by: Wrenchmensch on February 04, 2013, 03:17:54 PM

I found one of these years ago and still have it.  I also believe it's a King Motor Car Company wrench. King existed 1911 - 1924, first in Detroit, then its last two years in Buffalo, NY.

Title: Re: King wrench
Post by: Bus on February 04, 2013, 11:35:45 PM

I wish someone could prove it is a King Auto wrench as I have several. Seems to me that they are too many around to be for the King Auto Company. There was also a couple King Tractors but again no proof that they issued the King wrench.

Title: Re: King wrench
Post by: rusty on March 09, 2013, 02:02:51 PM

There also seems to have been a King Drill {Manufacturing} Co,(Nebraska City,NB)
 which was making cream seperators ~1901 ish....
(Nebraska City,NB)

Doesn't really look like a cream seperator wrewnch, but then, the one picture I found of King's seperator, doesn't look very much like the typical seperator (kinda looks like a bucket with a funnel welded to it ;P)

Title: Re: King wrench
Post by: mvwcnews on March 09, 2013, 09:42:20 PM

Quote from: rusty on March 09, 2013, 02:02:51 PM

There also seems to have been a King Drill {Manufacturing} Co,(Nebraska City,NB)
 which was making cream seperators ~1901 ish....
(Nebraska City,NB)

Doesn't really look like a cream seperator wrewnch, but then, the one picture I found of King's seperator, doesn't look very much like the typical seperator (kinda looks like a bucket with a funnel welded to it ;P)

The KING DRILL (Nebr. City, Nebr) wrench is malleable iron, not steel.   

Title: Re: King wrench
Post by: Carl Wagner on April 26, 2013, 07:47:58 AM

King Plow Co. Atlanta, GA is another possibility