Stanley's records . . .

[steve mackay]

Over the years I've seen many learned "authorities" typing charts and articals for dating and "typing" Stanley hand planes. All SEEM to be painstakingly compiled but have a rather "arbitrary" and "anecdotale" feel. I'm just wondering if anyone has ever aproached the company with requests for records or asked as to the method of madness in regard to body casting-mark numbers. Or would I be barking up a tree and heading down an, already, well tred path ?

[imschur]

Actually I kind of had this discussion with a former Stanley engineer. Ill pick his brain. I do recall him telling me they have one of everything they have ever made with its history in a special room or something.

[steve mackay]

Hey . . . I e-mailed Stanley and actually heard back from them ! Was kinda surprised. Dude said that Stanley has really never kept records of the casting marks / numbers but if you had a specific number or mark they might try matching against their collection. Not the answer I was looking for but it was decent of them to respond.

[imschur]

I talked to my guy today, actually its my boss. He said the saving of everything was actually done by an old time employee who's no longer there.

[steve mackay]

I guess I was hopeing there was an old, dusty ledger on a shelf in a corner of a deep dusty sub-basement with all these neat records and notes from the turn of the century. Ah well, the things we WISH folks had done at the time.

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