Thread: Old spanners

G' day Colin, During the War , the 1939 ,45 that is ,a lot of military vehicles where made in Canada, ....Canadian Military Pattern I believe.
Ford and Kaiser and G M and possibly others.
perhaps your spanners are from that era .
I also enjoy car boot ,jumble sales!

dave

Yup! All and every CMP vehicle came with a set of spanners so drivers could do roadside repairs,as often workshops were only in rear areas,drivers were trained in vehicle repair and all CMP vehicles both Ford and Chevrolet had standardised parts this made repairs quick and easy,all bolts and nuts were SAE(standard American engineering or unified national fine) unlike British vehicles with BSF,BSW,& Whitworth.

cheers

I have heaps of old spanners like that somewhere in the shed.

If I can pinch Gromit's thread for a minute .......thanks Uncle Ho, now those Blitze's would have to be the most versatile machine ever made ,! even more than a series Landrover
dave

Just remembered this picture of some I got a while ago.

Spanners 1 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

The BSA & Rudge ones are probably worth keeping, not sure about the Minerve and another of those EnFo spanners.

Same guy at the market as the others came from. He visits lots of garage sales and buys up all the tools then runs a stall every Sunday.

I also have on my desk a very small King Dick adjustable, a copy of a Lucas Girder adjustable and a few others. I must stop collecting stuff !


Colin

Originally Posted by UncleHo

Yup! All and every CMP vehicle came with a set of spanners so drivers could do roadside repairs,as often workshops were only in rear areas,drivers were trained in vehicle repair and all CMP vehicles both Ford and Chevrolet had standardised parts this made repairs quick and easy,all bolts and nuts were SAE(standard American engineering or unified national fine) unlike British vehicles with BSF,BSW,& Whitworth.

cheers

My F60-L (Ford CMP blitz) has from the factory original BSW bolts on it, the ones with their heads a size bigger than the equivalent BSF bolt. They are 5/16 BSW thread with a 5/16 BSW head, whereas most post war 5/16 BSW threads will have a 1/4 BSW / 5/16 BSF head.

Aaron

I think the change in size of BSW heads/nuts was actually a wartime measure to save steel, but only really implemented in the UK - which means, of course that they would be rare in Canadian vehicles.

It's suggested that the head size was reduced to save material during WWII then didn't get changed back.
British Standard Whitworth - Wikipedia

Colin