Don Schwartz asks:

Picked up a nice 10" screwdriver today for $1 at a garage sale. It's
blade is marked "SIGNAL SHEFF ENG". I searched the archive and found no
information.
Google is equally unhelpful. Does anyone know about this maker?

Back in the early 1950s, SIGNAL BRAND SHEFFIELD ENGLAND produced a
range of very low cost tools. Here, in Australia, they were available
in variety stores; I, as a schoolboy bought quite a few of them:
registered chisels, hacksaw, marking gauge, try-square (inaccurate),
block plane (sole quite arched), screwdriver, etc. They cost about
two shillings (20 cents) each or less. I bought them in 1954 because
they were cheap but they were not an ideal set of tools with which to
start out.

Clynt
(in Sydney, Australia)

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