Thread: my spanner is smaller than your spanner

I think the King Dick brand came out of the UK, I well remember an adjustable spanner similar to the isuzutoo-eh picture but a bit more substantial and probably around 200mm overall length as part of the toolkit in my parents 1949 Rover 75

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

3BA size - not out of any Toyota toolkit I know!


BTW: "King Dick" were the brand of the adjustable spanners used in the original 1948 Land Rover toolkit.

Pretty sure they made the jacks too.

G'day Folks

"King Dick" was a brand of tools for Machinery and Automotive use between WW1 and WW11 as well as post war,and was often part of the manufacturers tool kits supplied to new vehicles, they were also part of the tool kits of British Military Vehicles during and post WW11,they may have preceeded WW1 as equipment of early English automobiles.they were of good quality and still turn up at Swap meets and garage sales. now-a-days most tools are sourced from the Orient.

The 2BA and 3BA spanner at the start of this thread would have been part of an Instrument/Electrical repair kit I had a set years ago but it grew legs brilliant for doing repairs to series Landrover electrics/instruments.

cheers

Originally Posted by UncleHo

G'day Folks

"King Dick" was a brand of tools for Machinery and Automotive use between WW1 and WW11 as well as post war,and was often part of the manufacturers tool kits supplied to new vehicles, they were also part of the tool kits of British Military Vehicles during and post WW11,they may have preceeded WW1 as equipment of early English automobiles.they were of good quality and still turn up at Swap meets and garage sales. now-a-days most tools are sourced from the Orient.

The 2BA and 3BA spanner at the start of this thread would have been part of an Instrument/Electrical repair kit I had a set years ago but it grew legs brilliant for doing repairs to series Landrover electrics/instruments.

cheers

thanks for the info it all starts to make sense to me now as i believe this spanner came originally from my grandfather's workshop and he did serve in the war
cheers

King Dick tools used to be common when I was a young tacker and apprentice. I remember those bloody awful shifters and ugly thick black steel wrenches.

Very low class stuff in my opinion.

Had this for years

We used "BA" size spanners in the aircraft industry, on UK built planes. I used them on Mk88 Strikemaster's.