Vintage Walden Worcester Fixed Socket Wrench - 3/4 x 9/16 AF - Antique Car Tool for Sale

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Vintage Walden Worcester Fixed Socket Wrench - 3/4 x 9/16 AF - Antique Car Tool For Sale

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Vintage Walden Worcester Fixed Socket Wrench - 3/4 x 9/16 AF - Antique Car Tool:
$12.93

Basically a pre-socket set tool. Makers name still faintly visible, as well as the sizes, and the number "2418". An interesting bit of history in tool evolution.
"Walden-Worcester was probably the most important early manufacturer of automotive specialty tools. In the years before 1920, Walden fixed socket wrenches were the standard tools for automotive repair, and nearly every garage and automobile dealership used these tools in their daily work." - alloy-artefacts web page
and:"By 1916 Walden had developed a method of securing heavy-duty machined sockets to steel rod handles and soon became the leading producer of fixed socket wrenches. Once these machined and broached sockets were in production, it was a fairly simple matter to give them a 1/2-square drive end broach instead of attaching a handle, and Walden began planning to produce sets of heavy-duty interchangeable sockets."
Also some people are claiming that these were in very early Ford car kits but I can't confirm that.
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