The "Strong Arm" registered logo has been used for much more than Armstrong Brothers Tools:
The TL-29 knife above is similar to the Plomb Tool (Proto) because Armstrong Bros. shared trademarks in 1920 and also in 1948.
Danaher Corporation assumed control as a vast conglomeration of affiliated tool company holdings in 1994. Currently teaming Armstrong Division with Apex Tool Group in 2010. The five digit model codes of 1978 currently used encoding category then size/pattern. The TL-29 type is marked as #74-553 just one out of a line of seven folder technician knives:
Below see the:
#74-552
"The TL-29 is a great help and has been around here and there...."
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Albert Baer bought the Jowika factory at Listowel, Ireland in 1978 but then Imperial Schrade factory closed in 2002.
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| 1977 Imperial USA - Providence, Rhode Island |
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| 1978 Imperial STAG - Listowel, Ireland |
The steel used for these originally came from a small arms factory in a 48,000 sq. meter industrial park in Krefeld associated with the Duisburg district Friemersheim.
"The TL-29 STAG brand should have gotten it's stainless steel blades from a major cartel area like in this spot."
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"Ireland is a good place to be to avoid allied bombings"
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"Time enough to just 'hang-loose' with Mother Scherf."
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| Dwight Divine in 1862 |
Military knives and also technicians folders like the TL-29 were made with an Ulster registered brand name of "Kingston USA". Dwight Divine and his family settled near Kingston, N.Y. when Joseph Divine migrated to Fallsburg (Loch Sheldrake) from Ulster County, N.Y. and established Divine Corners community in 1794. The D&H Canal was opened in 1828 bringing goods to Ellenville, N.Y. where his family built a factory in 1876.
Marmaduke Wardlow was a leading Master Cutler of the Portobello Steel Works of Sheffield, England and was a supplier of Crucible English Blade Steel used in Ulster Knives. Blade blanks and bales also available for import.
The Old Ellenville Zinc Mine in operation during the 1800's became a large incentive to " best-shore" knife manufacturing there.
The Nevele in Ellenville is "too cool".... modern and trendy big hotel like Grossingers, Fallsview, or the Concord (except for all the middle class jews from Long Island and their 'yentas').
The Ulster Knife Company name was at first only a brand name of Ulster (County). Two of Dwight Divine's four children with wife Millicent Hatch died as young children in the hard winters of the Catskill mountains. He lived to a ripe old age of 92 and died in an auto accident in 1933. His only living son John H. Divine carried on the business " Ulster/Dwight Divine & Son". World War 2 was approaching and he decided to end the knife production by selling out to Albert Baer in 1941 before he died in 1943.
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| 1940 - 1941 |
The TL-29 in the photo above shows just how the "last ditch" production of Ulster Knife Company was fairing near to it's end. The main blade was retrofitted with a drop point blade contracted from Imperial Japan. The secondary blade was still made from Samuel & Charles Wardlow's Best Blade Steel. The bale is imported nickel brass made in Sheffield. In 1942 the bale was made of nickel silver because of material shortages.
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"Ric-Nor Boston USA" trademark (1958-1977) was used by Richartz of Nordheim-Westfalen , also known as (Richards) Sheffield. "RIC-hartz of NOR-dheim" forms the acronym RIC-NOR.
The stone monument pictured above sits in front of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum at Nordheim-Westfalen, Germany.
RIC-NOR is the trade name for their flagship location in Providence, Rhode Island. They soldout to Imperial Knife Co. completely in 1977.
The "Boston" area is famous for cheap plastic novelties throughout the globe but little known by Americans.
"Look closely at the "ridges" along the hollow and really cheap grip plates.."
The modern colour inside of the loop gives a stylish accent, fixed keyring, releasable keyring - Richards of Sheffield Vintage Knives. Richards of Sheffield was founded in the 1930s in Sheffield, United Kingdom by Paul & Stefan Richartz, along with their engineer Wilhelm Muller. The men had fled Solingen, Germany so they wouldn't perish from allied bombing like the other fellow Nazis. They adopted the Welsh family name of "Richards" to be more British but they were still active Nazi Party affiliates. Richards of Sheffield made knives, scissors, flatware and tools at prices "every man could afford" sort of the "knife of our people". During World War ll Richards of Sheffield made Royal Navy pocket knives, and Royal Army adjustable wrenches and knife, fork & spoon sets [ex. Three-in-One Compactum].
After the war, they made camper's knives and the TL-29 electricians type, Compactum sets, the stainless steel "Electric Mate" barlow TL-29 (1958):
Carving sets also, and special souvenir knives for tourist attractions in the UK and Canada. In 1983, the factory was shutdown entirely. Many do not realize what RIC-NOR company was in the USA and are very uninformed and quite confused.
" No one has to be deceived anymore!"
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