original or repo sling help

[painter777]

The C tip is real. The D tip on the far right is a New Repro- You can see the Brass hook inside that catches the Finial has no tarnish and the Weave screams Repro.

Interesting to me is the Middle D tip sling with the TRW DOT Stamp. I don't recall ever seeing a TRW marked one. To me the Weave looks correct for a Post WWII /Korean War Sling.
We worked on a number of Expansions on TRW owned Plants in the 90's.

Now interested, I did some searching and found that:

Not yet called TRW started out In 1901 as Cleveland Snap Screw and was acquired by and later named Thompson Products.

After WWII In 1950, Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge while working for Hughes Aircraft grew frustrated with Howard Hughes' management, and formed the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation in September 1953, with the financial support of Thompson Products.

Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. became the lead contractor of the resulting ICBM development effort, reporting to the United States Air Force.

Thompson Products and Ramo-Wooldridge merged in October 1958 to form Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., unofficially known as "TRW".

Thompson Ramo Wooldridge officially became TRW Inc. in July 1965.

TRW acquired Boston based United Carr in the late 60's.

In 1991, Scovill acquired the DOT line of industrial fasteners from Cambridge, Massachusetts-based TRW, Inc.

Scovill followed in 1996 and acquired RAU Fasteners, makers of Klikit brand snaps.

Note: That Scovill dates back to 1802, making their mark selling Brass buttons and snaps for the War of 1812 and every War afterward.

The don't think the marking TRW would have appeared until the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation formed with the financial support of Thompson Products.
At that time unofficially known as "TRW"... in 1953

I believe the Sling is real, late Korean War or Post Korea.

Has anyone else seen a Snap marked TRW with the DOT ?
Was it on a C tip or D tip Sling?


I believe I have a dozen or so D tips, I'll dig them out and look.
I'll report back if I have one in this Post.

FWIW