Record vices - website?

There's Record Power. it isn't them, but I am sure that they will know who thye contact is.

This may be an importer. The manufacturer will be Hoo Flung Dung of Shanghai

================================== 'Irwin', I think.

Cic.

I still have, and regularly use, my 3½" Record No 2 vice which I was given for, I think, a Christmas present when I was about 12 or 13,

John Cyril Bamford's company makes really nice excavators. They have also lent their name to a range of crappy power tools. I hope that either they made a lot of money out of this or that the marketing manager who worked on the project was fired.

At least Caterpillar made a reasonable attempt at something with a level of quality.

Record was bought by Irwin a few years ago.

Thanks. A note on their site says that all Record products will be, or have been by now, re-branded as Irwin. Sad.

David

The vices used to be made at the Record Ridgeway factory in Sheffield

- I remember going on a tour of the place in the early 1980's.

Surely it was Rotherham? Or was it only the foundry in Rotherham? Even then, 1981ish, the place was nearly completely automated, the blokes who worked there were just watching and pressing buttons occasionally. Alan.

The Irwin tools I've seen in the shops are some way below the quality that Record was.

No-one. Irwin (USA) bought them and closed them. Still some new-old- stock around though.

I bought mine here:

BTW Dieter is very nice and his service is excellent. the two cherries chisels are highly reccomended, take and hold a very sharp edge.

Peter

Long time ago. ISTR the foundary was fully automated and much hyped as state of the art continuous flow production. The shop floor work of finishing the castings was a fairly grim affair. Location I thought was just off Sheffield Parkway.

True of most traditional tools. Look at the s*** than Stanley make these days.

Practically though, the UK is full of top quality secondhand hand tools that can be picked up for a song on ebay.

Like this one

Fortunately the most commonplace stuff is the most useful - and of least interest to the collectors.

e.g.