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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ken W. on September 01, 2013, 07:49:31 PM

Title: GRANTS BREAKER BAR
Post by: Ken W. on September 01, 2013, 07:49:31 PM

I was at a trappers convention over the weekend and picked up a breaker bar and extension. It's a Grants 3/8 drive  # WTGNO. 5-3608 breaker bar. The ext is # 4119 with a MF in a square. I remember there being a Grants dept. store in Buffalo that closed 35 years ago or more. Do you guy's think its the same Grants ? Can't get a pic up for a couple days.

Title: Re: GRANTS BREAKER BAR
Post by: mikeswrenches on September 01, 2013, 08:00:52 PM

There was a W. T. GRANT store when I was a kid.  I think this was a national chain.  It existed in western Pennsylvania for sure. 

Google W.T. Grant.  There is quite a bit of info out there.

Mike

Title: Re: GRANTS BREAKER BAR
Post by: Wrenchmensch on September 19, 2013, 10:03:48 AM

The only WT Grant Department Store wrench I've found so far is marked, in 3 lines: MANUFACTURED FOR, W.T. GRANT CO.,25 CENT SEPT. STORE.  It is a standard 10-inch Stillson style pipe wrench. This wrench's most significant variation from better-made wrenches of the same period are its shallow-cut teeth, which would quickly wear down.

Title: Re: GRANTS BREAKER BAR
Post by: skipskip on September 19, 2013, 09:31:45 PM

Several WT Grants dept stores here in Albany, last one closed late 70's I think.

Actually the whole chain caved in in 1976.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Grant

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