Vintage Spanners & Wrenches in Australia
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A Pictorial Guide
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Welcome to Vintage Spanners & Wrenches in Australia, your online guide to
collectable spanners, shifters and wrenches supplied by Companies in Australia.
This site is still under construction, but will eventually provide information
on many different makers and suppliers of spanners, and, where available, background
history on the companies that supplied them in Australia. You'll find many photographs
to illustrate company product and logo images to help identify unfamiliar makers,
and a listing of orphan spanners (please make contact if you can identify any
of them or add to known ranges shown).
If any viewer has information, images etc relating to any of the webpages already
functioning / under construction, or for other companies that operated in Australia
(that have been missed here) and issued wrenches or cast iron seats or other
farm collectables - please make contact as we are keen to add them to this website.
All images on this website are copyright. Should you feel the need to use any
of them - do the right thing and make contact on the link below and make you
request.
Swap Meet calendar for 2012
Tools for Sale
Local Agricultural Companies - Spanners and Information
- W G Barger of West Melbourne
- J H Bolden P Falla & (Donald)(seeking
information)
- Beard & Sissons of Natimuk & Melbourne (seeking information)
- John Buncle of North Melbourne
- Cliff & Bunting of North Melbourne
- Cooper & Sunbeam of Sydney & Melbourne (gathering
further information)
- Clyde Engineering of Sydney, incl Hudson Bros
and Ritchie Bros
- Dangar, Gedye & Co & Dangar, Gedye & Malloch of Sydney (seeking further
info)
- Eclipse Milkers
- D Edwards of Elizabeth St Melbourne
- P Falla & J H Bolden (Donald)(seeking
information)
- Furphy of Shepparton
- Gaston Bros of Kensington (Melbourne)
- Gibbins of Footscray
- Golden City Co (Bendigo)(seeking
further information)
- Grant, James & George of Elizabeth
St Melbourne, (seeking further information)
- Daniel Harvey of Box Hill
- Haberecht Bros (Henty) & H Haberecht of
Jindera (seeking information)
- Horwood Bagshaw (& Associated Companies) of South
Australia
- Thomas Howie of Footscray, Melbbourne (seeking more information)
- Hudson Brothers of Sydney: refer to Clyde page
- International Harvester Australia (seeking further
information)
- Kelly & Lewis (KL Bulldog Tractors & Crump Implements) of Springvale (seeking
information)
- Hugh Lennon of Spottswood /Spottiswoode (Melbourne)
- Lightning Farm Implements & Fruit Graders
Brunswick & Collingwood (Melbourne)
- Linke-Noack of Freeling in South Australia (seeking information)
- McCalman, Garde & Co of North Melbourne (McCG&C)(seeking
further information)
- Massey Harris Australia (gathering information)
- May Brothers of Gawler in South Australia
(seeking further information)
- May & Millar of Horsham (seeking
further information)
- Meadowbank Manufacturing Co of Meadowbank
in Sydney (seeking further information)
- Joseph Mellor & Mellor Bros of South Australia, also Braybrook Implement
Co & Meadowbank (seeking information)
- Metters (seeking further
information)
- Mintern of Richmond (seeking
further information)
- Mitchell & Co of West Footscray in Melbourne
(M & Co)(seeking furtherinformation)
- Moffat Virtue of Sydney (seeking further information)
- George Munro P/L of Ballarat (seeking information)
- Joseph Nicholson & Co & Nicholson
& Morrow (N & M)(seeking additional information)
- W. C. Peacock & Bro(seeking
further information)
- Rawling & Co of Coburg in Melbourne(seeking
further information)
- Ritchie Bros of Sydney: refer to Clyde
page(seeking further information)
- Riverina Harvester Co of Corowa (NSW)(seeking information - has anyone
out there seen a spanner by them?)
- Thomas Robinson & Co (TR & Co)
please make contact if you have more information
- Ronaldson Bros & Tippett P/L (seeking
further information)
- David Shearer of South Australia
- John Shearer of South Australia (gathering information)
- C H Smith of South Australia (gathering information)
- Southern Cross & Toowoomba Foundry (seeking information)
- Sunshine Harverster of Sunshine (gathering information)
- Thompsons of Castlemaine (seeking information)
- Wain & Hyland, Wain & Son of Chiltern, Victoria (gathering
information)
- Werner of Richmond, Victoria, who made ammonia compressors and refrigeration equipment (seeking information)
- Wiles Mfg Co of South Australia (seeking information)
- Various makers (seeking information)- Dignan Stripper, Illman Harvester,
A E Beard Natimuk, Petschel Plow, Linke Noack Freeling, R A Tucker Dimboola,
Beard & Sisson, Sporn Nhill, Wood Geelong, Hearn Donald, H R Bradshaw Horsham,
T Howie Footscray.
Other Local Companies
- Austaloy / AG Healing (gathering information)
- Blackwoods - home brand spanners marked JBC (seeking information)
- Boomerang - who made these?(seeking information)
- Connolly (of Sydney) - (seeking information)
- Coxhead (gathering information)
- Cyclone, Miller-Cyclone, PCM (gathering information)
- Daniel Forge - an economy line made for Sidchrome mostly marked made in
Japan, but some sockets were marked "Made in Australia" (gathering
information)
- Dowidat (gathering information)
- Dufor (Duly & Hansford) (gathering information)
- Equip / GMH / Holden (seeking information)
- Gregsteel, Gregory Steel Products, GSP (gathering information)
- Holden (gathering information)
- Hendersons, HFSW (gathering information)
- Hercules, (gathering information)
- Litchfield (gathering information)
- Macson (McPhersons) (seeking information)
- McEwans - home brand spanners marked made in Japan (seeking information)
- Marsden (seeking information)
- Plumb / Fern (gathering information)
- Qualcast Mowers (gathering information)
- Repco, Replex (gathering information)
- Sidchrome, Siddons, Sidalloy, etc (gathering information)
- Terrier (gathering information)
- Victa Mowers (gathering information)
- Villiers (gathering information)
- Zircalloy (gathering information)
New Zealand Showcase
Some Overseas Company Items Found Locally
- Caterpillar Tools (gathering information)
- Ferguson, Ford ferguson, Massey Ferguson
Tools (gathering additional information)
- International Harvester Tools (see above)
- John Deere Tools (gathering information)
- Lister (gathering information)
- Massey Harris & Verity Tools (gathering information)
- Various (gathering information)
Manuals, Parts lists & Catalogues
Mower Manuals
Gallery of Orphans and Interesting Spanners & Wrenches
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Feature Tool: Meadowbank Malleable Wrench
M & P Simpson states that "The Mellor Brothers (of South Australia)
formed a Farmers' Cooperative Co Ltd in 1891, and to widen the scope of business,
set up branch factories in Sydney (Meadowbank Manufacturing Co) and Melbourne
(Baybrook Implement Co) Mellor Bros Cooperative Co Ltd was wound up in 1895.
The Baybrook Implement Co was wound up and H V Mckay purchased the plant in
1904".
The Meadowbank Manufacturing Co survived the demise of its parent (Mellor
Bros Co-op) and must have prospered, as there was an advertisement for their
ploughs in 1911 Pastoralists Review, and listings in Sydney S & M Directories
have been sited from 1904 to 1933. In addition to agricultural implements
and machinery, they made trams for the Sydney Tramways.
This is the only example of their wrenches known to us - it is of malleable
cast iron. It has 4 open hex ends and two square box openings. It is about
12 inches long, and we have no knowledge of what machinery it may have been
issued with.
Pictures of other Meadowbank artefacts - see the Meadowbank page. The overall
length is about 12inches.
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