Thats not a bad haul 
The booze would be wasted on me but the other stuff - nice 
You collect old stuff on a big scale or just bits and bobs?
The best tools are those made in the 1950s/60s. Accurate enough to be useful on modern devices, more solid than the current designs and better forged than current Chinese knockoffs. An equivalent spanner of the same quality today would be one of the snap-on brand at £45-£65 per spanner.
Yeah, I have some tool history experience and agree totally with what you are saying.
My old mans tools, which I kept (all imperial), were so damn good. On a sad note they are "gone" along with various aircraft crash site items including the lower half of a Carb off a Merlin Spitfire, Hurrincane spar components, crushed BF110 exhaust stacks and a full cam shaft from one of the same aircrafts engines along with some supercharger parts ... and it was my fault they are gone 
No. You sold them? or let them go? The crash parts, your Dad purloined them when he was a boy?
I have some Me 110 bits, skin. I also have some mementoes from the house where Hess was being held in the South of England.
You twit you (but we knew that anyway).
Never mind. Swings and roundabouts.
I have some Me 110 bits, skin. I also have some mementoes from the house where Hess was being held in the South of England.
You twit you (but we knew that anyway).
Never mind. Swings and roundabouts.
Not so much a twit as the reproduction organ of your choice
The aircraft parts were given to me by an opposite number at a company I did work for years ago. Once, after a meeting we got talking vintage aircraft. He was involved in wartime archeology and I mentioned some of our own procedeures could clean up and/or halt corrosion so in helping him I got some very nice bits and bobs along with other infor and stuff.
I kept them all at work and had taken the older of my Fathers tools for some treatment.
As with most things like this you think you can get onto it at anytime and with that years passed, I got ill and eventually left and then that division of the company was sold. I remained a keyholder and the CEO is a good friend of mine so I was often in there when one day I certainly thought about the stuff.
As with most things like this you think you can get onto it at anytime and with that years passed, I got ill and eventually left and then that division of the company was sold. I remained a keyholder and the CEO is a good friend of mine so I was often in there when one day I certainly thought about the stuff.
It is most likely all the stuff was skipped through ignorance of importance - certainly as far as the aircraft stuff was concerned.
Someone may have kept the tools - I hope so.
Someone may have kept the tools - I hope so.
It was a period of years where my health, my wifes health and my eldest sons all took a turn for the worst along with a ton of other crap we could have done without. However, we are still all here
That is just unfortunate. IT happens.