Mystery logo on pliers

[bugbear]

I bought some needle nose pliers this morning. Nice tool. Don't recognise the logo.

(stamped into the pivot)

Apart from it being hilarious - does anyone know the maker?

BugBear

 

[AndyT]

I recognise them...I think they were a free gift with Viz magazine a while back... :wink:

 

[Shrubby]

King Dick again ?
I'll get my coat

 

[bugbear]

My guess is that the upper round element is a waterwheel.

BugBear

 

[toolsntat]

Speed/rev indicator :wink:

No idea who :?: :?:

Andy

 

[wjordan]

Just found an ad in an old Remscheid directory (1929). The maker is Gustav Klauke, never heard that name before. The tool pictured in the logo can be seen here in more detail ("Umdrehungszaehler", revolution counter?):
http://kataloge.holzwerken.de/zkatalog/ ... te_256.jpg

Wolfgang

 

[bugbear]

Just found an ad in an old Remscheid directory (1929). The maker is Gustav Klauke, never heard that name before. The tool pictured in the logo can be seen here in more detail ("Umdrehungszaehler", revolution counter?):
http://kataloge.holzwerken.de/zkatalog/ ... te_256.jpg

Wolfgang

Wonderful - thank you!

Is that a catalogue of millwrights' (*) tools?

BugBear

(*) the term millwright morphed from one who works on mills (wind and water) to machinery installation in general during the industrial revolution.

 

[wjordan]

Just recently I started a project to put some of my catalogues online in high resolution:
http://kataloge.holzwerken.de/index.phtml
The page showing the revolution counter comes from a so-called Z-Katalog (published in 1937/38). It contains all kinds of tools for working wood and metal (page 256):
http://kataloge.holzwerken.de/index.phtml?name=zkatalog&lfdnr=1

Wolfgang