Early Rare Underline Logo Husky Wrench Co. 9/16\" Dr Standard Service Set 1924-29 For Sale

This listing is for a Husky Wrench Co. (very early Husky Corporation) standard service set of sockets.
The tools are used, show some wear, but are in excellent working condition for their age.
No. 986 would be the set number, from some research, but isn\'t actually on any of the set.
Box could be original, and missing wooden inner separator, but I can not be certain.
9/16\" hex drive, with adapter to square, as well as a speed crank, universal joint, breaker bar and sockets as shown.
No date stamp specifically, but the ratchet is stamped Husky Wrench Co., which was founded in 1924.
By January of 1929 Husky Wrench had changed its name to the Husky Corporation.
No owner marks
Comes as seen in pics.
Thanks for looking and happy buying.

Fig. 1 at the left shows the company\'s products as illustrated on a 1924 linecard or advertising brochure, providing an example of the distinctive Husky logo in the trademark application. The tools in the illustration closely resemble the contents of theHusky No. 986 Socket Setdescribed in a later figure.

Currently nothing is known about what kind of production facilities Husky Wrench may have had, or whether they made use of outside production for their tools. However, the new company was apparently able to get their tools into the distribution channels: the Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Company, a San Francisco-based industrial supplier, mentions Husky in their 1925 catalog.

The Dunham catalog shows two Husky socket sets, a No. 986 set that turns out to have 9/16-hex drive, and a \"Heavy Duty\" set that was likely 13/16-hex drive. The No. 986 set included a No. 1 ratchet, a sliding Tee handle, a \"speed crank\" (similar to theBlackhawk T15), an extension with a rotating grip, a universal, and adapter, and 10 hex sockets. Sigmund Mandl filed a patent application in 1925 for the design of the No. 986 set, and received patent#1,775,402in 1930.

From the Alloy Artifacts website:Company History

Although not much information is available for the Husky Wrench Company, we can piece together a rough outline of their history from various records.

Husky Wrench was founded in 1924 by Sigmund Mandl, Joseph O. Wirtish, Oscar W. Engerson, and John G. Zummach, several of whom had previously worked for the Snap-On Wrench Company. According to a notice in the 1924Automotive Industries(Volume 50, page 1309), Mandl, Wirtish, and Engerson were former employees of Snap-On, where Wirtish had been a manager. Several other contemporary sources provide similar information, and note the initial capital stock as $50,000.

Zummach had previously been a manager at Zummach Engineering Service and initially was named Secretary and Treasurer of the new Husky Wrench, according to a notice in the 1924SAE Journal(Volume 15, Issue 1, Page 8). A later notice in the 1925Machinery(Volume 32, page 846) listed slightly revised management roles, with Zummach as president and treasurer, Mandl as vice-president, and Wirtish as secretary.

Regardless of the formal management assignments, Sigmund Mandl operated as the chief engineer and driving force for the company, and his name appears on the trademark and patent applications for Husky Wrench.

The founding date for the company is believed to have been January 29, 1924, the date listed as the first commercial use of the Husky name on their trademark application. Mandl filed the application for the \"Husky\" underline trademark on February 9, 1924, and the registration was issued on July 22 of that year. The application listed the company address as 1610 Vliet Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sigmund Mandl received several patents for Husky Wrench, the first of which was filed on February 1 of 1924, just days after the company was formed. This patent covered the design used in theirNo. 1 Ratchet, and was issued as#1,614,039with an assignment to the Husky Wrench Company of Milwaukee. The timing of the patent suggests that this ratchet design was the major impetus for founding the company.

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