Gallery
The Gallery section of this website provides information on many different makers and suppliers of spanners, and, where available, background history on the companies that supplied them in Australia. Additional Companies and Makers will be brought online s as time and information permits. You’ll find many photographs to illustrate company product, and a listing of orphan spanners (please make contact if you can identify any of them or add to known ranges of makers shown).
If any viewer has information, images etc relating to any of the webpages already functioning or under construction, or for other companies that operated in Australia that we have missed 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 to make you request.
Gallery of Veteran and Vintage Motoring Tools
Gallery of Australian Jacks, Overseas Jacks, Unknown Provenance Jacks
Gallery of Pumps, Hub spanners & wrenches, Vintage Tyre Levers
Gallery of Vintage Military Tools
Ships Tank Lids found in Australia
Gallery of Orphans and Interesting Spanners & Wrenches
- Gallery of Axle Wrenches
- Gallery of Blacksmith Made Spanners & Wrenches
- New Orphans
- Table of Makers Marks (gathering information)
- LINKS to interesting Websites
Local Agricultural Companies – Gallery, 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
- Chamberlain Tractors
- 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 & Co & Grant, George & Co both of Elizabeth St Melbourne, (seeking further information)
- Grant, James & Sons of Cobram (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). Note: Lennon plough components were used in the making of Ned Kelly’s armour
- 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)
- Martin, James & Co Ltd of SA & NSW
- 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
- Andrews & Beaven Ltd (seeking further information)
- Booth, Booth MacDonald, BoothMac-Nicholsons (gathering information)
- P & D Duncan (seeking further information)
- MJ Hooper(gathering information)
- Kiwi (gathering information)
- Masport, Morrison (gathering information)
- Reid & Gray (seeking further information)
- New Zealand cast iron implement seats (seeking further information)
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)