Need help to Identify Dad's old, 1927?, socket set.

[rustystudebaker]

Dad bought Socket Set in 1927. I inherited it 30 years ago. Always thought it was Sears, but markings don't prove that. Sockets have size marked and "Made in U.S.A." I'll try to post a photo & hope somebody here is more aware than am I.

[geneg]

Hex drive or square drive?  Do you have any more pieces?

[d42jeep]

New Britain made None Better set. Similar to this one.

http://alloy-artifacts.org/newbritain-nonebetter.html#alloy-12dr

-Don

[rustystudebaker]

Photo of original tin box, 19'' x 6 1/2'', with tools. All 1/2'' square drive, 2 dozen sockets, some 8 point, some 12 point, 2-sided 9'' ratchet, 9'' slide handle / breaker bar, 18'' speed wrench, extensions. Want to pass them on to family or maybe sell them.

[Bill Houghton]

If your user name refers to a rusty Studebaker that you yourself own(ed), pictures of that would be lovely, too.

I'll start with pictures of the 1949 2R5 pickup that I drove for some years and then passed on to my son, who built the bed shown (before removing it, because, in California, a utility bed turns a pickup into a commercial truck that has to go through the weigh stations and get inspected for oil leaks, and so on).  It now has an eight foot bed welded up from two original beds.

Note the car phone in the last picture: it's wired into a circuit that believe it's a cell phone and talks to Verizon.

[rustystudebaker]

Rusty is because my last name is Russell & I was a red head as a kid. Studebaker is because in 1953 I fell in love for the first time with an automobile - the new Studebaker Commander 2-door hardtop. Later owned several 53s, now all gone. Your truck is a beauty.

[international3414]

nice truck,is that a clutch pedal on the left....haha

[JoeCB]

That left pedal make a vehicle just about theftproof these days. 

Joe B

[Bill Houghton]

nice truck,is that a clutch pedal on the left....haha

Not just a clutch pedal, but you can see an extension above it; in the original layout, that operated the very heavy duty pushbutton switch that powered up the Bendix starter, thus ensuring that you could not operate the starter with the truck in gear.  I'm not sure if my son continued that practice when he replaced the motor with a diesel; I know he kept the wooden sewing spool that I had used to replace the original (missing) knob on the glove box.