> On May 9, 2022, at 6:35 PM, Kirk Eppler via groups.io
 wrote:
> 
> All
> 
> I've been working on a reference for the different features on a vintage
> Kennedy tool box, and the one I recently found gave me an excuse to test it
> out.  You can download a copy of the KennedyFeatures pdf at the link below.
> 
> https://app.box.com/s/j7mg2nsg2wd5lvbc526i8ghcms345kos
> 
> If anyone has some good Kennedy literature or provenance that can help
> close gaps, I'd love to hear it.

Kirk,

Can’t help you on the drawer removal issue, but maybe you will find this as an
added data point.

My dad was a machinist working for Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft up till 1943 (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Aircraft ). After his slog thru
France and Germany in 1944-45 he found other employment. Circa 1975 he gave me a
Kennedy tool box and a few machinist tools. I downloaded your chart on the
Kennedy boxes but don’t see where mine fits. The color is definitely green —
Army green I would call it. Is that your Pine Tree of 1930? The box has a
stenciled number on it — B24D — that is clearly not original. The knobs are non-
magnetic so must be brass. Very grungy but probably originally nickel plated.
They are round, neither oval or rectangular. Second pic shows there was a plate
attached to the top that is now missing. Inside the lid is a partial label that
says Kennedy but little is readable. the clasp says Kennedy just like yours
does. I should have taken a better pic of the workbench barely visible behind
the box. It came out of a WWII Navy destroyer that was being broken up in a
shipyard in San Diego and my dad grabbed it. Perhaps the box came from a similar
source, however I suspect it was his workbox c. 1940.

Pics are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../albums/72177720299000941

Bill