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I have these 4 screw drivers that are all marked on the handles with broad arrows and numbers(years?). All of them have different marks stamped on the blades. I assume that these makers marks? Does anyone recognize these marks ?Attachment 58612Attachment 58613Attachment 58614Attachment 58615Attachment 58616
What you have are "turnscrews" and the markings are makers marks.....
The arrow shaped mark with the two balls on the ends represents the governor of a steam engine. nice.
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Don't know what it says: "-S-S", but it's a lot easier to read upright.
Those are what we used to call 'SCREWDRIVERS, cabinet makers'. And are identical to a set my father in law also has as a cabinet maker at the Swindon Railway works. Incidentally, the screwdrivers we were issued with as Armourers in the 60's looked like picture 1, bottom - with the rounded blade
It looked like you might have one of Capt. Boys' screwdrivers there for a minute, but his initial was not "T". ;)
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You could try the UK Intellectual Property Office website for trademarks.
Where i served my apprenticeship near Earls Court in 1980, they were involved in Aircraft & tank production during WW2, even as late as 1980 we were a wash with broad arrow marked hand tools dating back to the war, i still have Similar cabinet handled screwdrivers, Vee Blocks, thread gauges, scribing blocks, micrometers, engineers squares etc all with Broad Arrow marks and some are marked with 1940s dates. There was even a Pollard multi spindle drill that had a large broad arrow painted on one of the 4 columns.
It was tradition that when the older chaps retired they would pass some of their tools on to apprentices, and that's how i got these specific tools