RogerP
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Set of 3 spanners, can't find anything about them on the web. Any ideas who made them please?
Can you identify these spanners?
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I only looked for the easy one with the distinctive name, but to save anyone else wasting time looking in the same places, I could not find anything in the Directory of American Toolmakers (scroll down at http://www.taths.org.uk/shop) or at http://www.wrenchingnews.com/, not even at their useful page on identifying marks http://www.wrenchingnews.com/wrench-logos/logos-page-1.html
Thinking that they are probably not American (as the 10 stamped on the jaws of the second one down is presumably a size in mm) I tried the useful page at the Intellectual Property Office where you can search for European trade marks, https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmtext.htm I tried with a date range of 1876 to 1980 but although I found knitting machines, socks, armaments and dental tools, could see no Komet spanners.
I then noticed that there is a separate search on the IPO site for company names rather than trade marks.
There was a German maker of lathe tooling called Komet, who might have supplied spanners, but that seems a long shot.
So now I'm getting back to what I was supposed to be doing! Happy hunting!
I only looked for the easy one with the distinctive name, but to save anyone else wasting time looking in the same places, I could not find anything in the Directory of American Toolmakers (scroll down at http://www.taths.org.uk/shop) or at http://www.wrenchingnews.com/, not even at their useful page on identifying marks http://www.wrenchingnews.com/wrench-logos/logos-page-1.html
Thinking that they are probably not American (as the 10 stamped on the jaws of the second one down is presumably a size in mm) I tried the useful page at the Intellectual Property Office where you can search for European trade marks, https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmtext.htm I tried with a date range of 1876 to 1980 but although I found knitting machines, socks, armaments and dental tools, could see no Komet spanners.
I then noticed that there is a separate search on the IPO site for company names rather than trade marks.
There was a German maker of lathe tooling called Komet, who might have supplied spanners, but that seems a long shot.
So now I'm getting back to what I was supposed to be doing! Happy hunting!
bugbear
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Well, I can tell you what I see.
I see a "KOMET" brand on some very 1930's-1950's looking spanners. That's a German sounding brand.
The maker looks like it's a BE Co[mpany] Ltd. Ltd would probbaly mean a British company.
But "BE" is a hell of a name to search for, since I'm assuming it's a acronym,
BugBear
I see a "KOMET" brand on some very 1930's-1950's looking spanners. That's a German sounding brand.
The maker looks like it's a BE Co[mpany] Ltd. Ltd would probbaly mean a British company.
But "BE" is a hell of a name to search for, since I'm assuming it's a acronym,
BugBear
Having belatedly realised that these are one set, seen from both sides , I agree with BB, that we are looking for a British company with the trademark "Komet" not the German company called "Komet".
So I definitely don't know who BE Ltd or B.E. Ltd were, except that I think they were a British toolmaker in the 20th century :lol:
, I agree with BB, that we are looking for a British company with the trademark "Komet" not the German company called "Komet".So I definitely don't know who BE Ltd or B.E. Ltd were, except that I think they were a British toolmaker in the 20th century :lol:
Oh well, my assumption was that Komet is the manufacturer's brand and BE Co Ltd (obviously a UK co) is who they were made for - either as user or reseller.
Back to shaving my mortices before SWMBO comes home.... :lol:
Back to shaving my mortices before SWMBO comes home.... :lol:
RogerP
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Thanks for all the comments. Seems they're a bit of a mystery
Random Orbital Bob
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so.....priceless then
RogerP
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7 is 11/32" other end is 1/4"
10 is 3/8" other end is 15/32"
the largest one is 17/32" and 5/8"
10 is 3/8" other end is 15/32"
the largest one is 17/32" and 5/8"
Ed Bray
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I was expecting to see pictures of politicians.
lurker
Le dullard de la commune
Komet rang a bell
30 secs of google found this http://www.bentley-komet.com/
30 secs of google found this http://www.bentley-komet.com/
RogerP
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Thanks, this one of the links I've checked out but unfortunately, apart from the name Komet, there seems nothing on spanners in their tools and they have not replied to my email.
RogerS
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It has to be Bentley Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkfiBGUeg7c
Do I get a prize? :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkfiBGUeg7c
Do I get a prize? :lol:
RogerP
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No prizes - but you seem to have nailed it.
RogerP
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Drawing attention to the knitting machines was a move in the right direction.
Now I suppose I'll have to get one of those machines to go with the spanners.
Now I suppose I'll have to get one of those machines to go with the spanners.
RogerS
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Nope...didn't come at it from that direction.
I Googled "british engineering companies historic" which then gave me a list and read down until I came across this site which sounded promising.
GracesGuide.co.uk
put in Komet in their search bar and bingo!
I Googled "british engineering companies historic" which then gave me a list and read down until I came across this site which sounded promising.
GracesGuide.co.uk
put in Komet in their search bar and bingo!
lurker
Le dullard de la commune
Maybe I was too brief in my earlier posting;
Bentleys were a bunch of smaller companies all eventually came under the same name.
All from around the area I live which was a knitting machine manufacting centre supporting the local knitting industry.
And interestingly the offshoot of this engineering spawned Jones & Shipman and Wadkin.
IIRC Komet was originally Cottons brand - I remember in my youth maintaining these in a knitting factory.
Charles Bentley is still in Loughborough making brushes.
google: william cotton loughborough
Bentleys were a bunch of smaller companies all eventually came under the same name.
All from around the area I live which was a knitting machine manufacting centre supporting the local knitting industry.
And interestingly the offshoot of this engineering spawned Jones & Shipman and Wadkin.
IIRC Komet was originally Cottons brand - I remember in my youth maintaining these in a knitting factory.
Charles Bentley is still in Loughborough making brushes.
google: william cotton loughborough
