A lovely gift - whitworth tools

[jpsmit]

Was out and about today, one stop of which was stopping at the home of a friend from my club. He used to own a Roller Silver Dawn which he sold last year. Long story short he gave me a set of Whitworth tools which will come in handy for the Austin 7. More to the point my friend had received them from a friend and co-worker. A model maker and machinist originally from Devon. Lovely to receive the gift and even lovlier to know it will be cherished for the third generation.


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[Duncan Grimmond]

What a treat. You'll remember the source each time you pick one up!

[Chris Garner]

Some years ago, a neighbour whose husband had sadly died, gave me a complete imperial Britool socket set together with many other tools.

[Chris KC]

What a lovely gift. Some of my tools are very old friends.

[Hugh Barnes]

Decent tools, almost regardless of cost, will last a lifetime and are always a good investment. My 3/8" socket set were assembled as individual item gifts for birthdays and christmas when I was in my teenage. And that was a long time ago...

Never be tempted by cheap tools...

[jpsmit]

What a lovely gift. Some of my tools are very old friends.

And of course some of my very old friends are tools. 

[David Cochrane]

I am still using the Elora socket set which was on offer in a wonderful shop in Guildford 50 years ago. And my chisels & screwdrivers are hanging in a tool rack which my grandfather made, probably 80-100 years ago.

[Alan]

All of my spanner’s are old, apart from the metric ones which don’t get used much. Mostly they are found on EBay and I’m only telling you that because now I have enough for the time being.