Shovelhands
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- Sunny Essex
I picked this up today, a mate was taking it to the tip!....I rescued it
Didn’t think much to it at first, nice big spanner, but most of all, a nice spiked end on it for aligning steel work......
Got it home and showed dad, and we quickly realised it was WW2 era.....and possibly army issue? Dad says that symbol is army?
As you can see, it has the date clearly stamped, but the makers name is obscured a bit, I can make out THOMAS&CO LTD, but there is text in front of the Thomas name, and I can’t make that out, not had any google luck yet, but will keep looking, wondered if anyone else has items like this from the same maker?
It’s 1 & 11/16” across the jaw, and is 28” tip to tip.
I’d love to know what it’s intended use would have been....we’ve been speculating on it, wondering if it was possibly used to assemble Bailey Bridges? How wonderful it would be if it was, my grandfather was in the Royal Engineers and assembled Bailey Bridges, and he could well have used very similar tools.....
If anyone knows anything about this item, then it would be very interesting to know more....
And if anyone has other interesting tools from that era then let’s see em
Gave it a wire brush up....
clearly see part of the makers name here, but not the first name?.....
Didn’t think much to it at first, nice big spanner, but most of all, a nice spiked end on it for aligning steel work......
Got it home and showed dad, and we quickly realised it was WW2 era.....and possibly army issue? Dad says that symbol is army?
As you can see, it has the date clearly stamped, but the makers name is obscured a bit, I can make out THOMAS&CO LTD, but there is text in front of the Thomas name, and I can’t make that out, not had any google luck yet, but will keep looking, wondered if anyone else has items like this from the same maker?
It’s 1 & 11/16” across the jaw, and is 28” tip to tip.
I’d love to know what it’s intended use would have been....we’ve been speculating on it, wondering if it was possibly used to assemble Bailey Bridges? How wonderful it would be if it was, my grandfather was in the Royal Engineers and assembled Bailey Bridges, and he could well have used very similar tools.....
If anyone knows anything about this item, then it would be very interesting to know more....
And if anyone has other interesting tools from that era then let’s see em