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I hurt my back so my activites are limited. I am cleaning some old hand tools that belonged to my grandfathers.
I have a pair of wire cutters stamped BELL SYSTEM (which was THE telephone company in the US once upon a time). They are also stamped F.E. LINDSTROM SWEDEN on the other side.
Research (ok, just Google search) tells me that the Bell System had high quality tools made to their specifications for their service personnel. These particular wire cutters look to be at least 60 years old.
I've seen similar tools for US auto manufacturers, as well as IBM labeled tools carried by IBM's customer service representatives.
I'm curious as to whether putting business logos with tools made to a customer's specifications was just a US thing or was once a common business practice around the world.
Best Wishes - Craig
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Here in Australia, the only "customer"-branded tools I can recall were for government agencies.
PMG (Postmaster General's Department - Postal and Telegraph/telephone before the big split-up)
/|\ Broad arrow for Department of Defence (probably so they could pinch pommie ones!)
Various utilities and railways (all government owned in those days).
I worked alongside IBM and other mainframe servicemen half a century ago, and don't remember ever seeing the branding you mention.
And working on interfacing projects, we often had to sort our tools from theirs at the end of the day.
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My Dad started working for SW Bell in the mid 1960s, right out of high school and retired after 37 years. I remember the Bell System stamp on his tools, but don't recall the manufacturer stamps. The type of pliers you are referring to, he would call dikes. (diagonal cutters...for cutting and stripping)
My grandfather worked in aviation repair and had the coolest pliers I'd ever seen...safety wire twisters/cutters.
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Quote: safety wire twisters/cutters.
Still have a pair of those, from the 50's, also a "yankee screwdriver" from before electric tools.
I have some tools from my father, lineman's pliers that are approaching a century old. Alas, I am a pack rat. 
OTOH, I have a (very expensive) ergo keyboard that makes a big difference to my hands.
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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I found a lineman's handset by a TNI when i was a kid. It was basically a phone in bag with clips on it for attaching to the leads.
Labeled with some bell company logo.
I probably should have found somewhere to turn it in, but that would have been work, and I thought the thing was cool.
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Craig Robbins wrote: I'm curious as to whether putting business logos with tools made to a customer's specifications was just a US thing or was once a common business practice around the world.
No, it is a fairly common practice.
Putting the customers name on custom tools is for telling people where the tool was stolen from.
Lindström as a company is still around producing industry specific tools of high quality, often to customer specification.
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I'm still using a set of Lindstrom side cutters that date from the mid 80s. Still sharp and cutting true.
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...your post appears to have a code in it , so ....do this....
really ?
<b> you (AI) identified it as code ....YOU FIX IT....</b>
Inmates are STILL running the asylum....
ADDENDUM
I actually was curious how many personal / negative comments / attacks this post will generate...
Quite short of 100% , but it was nice from some regulars to show up with theirs usual (adjective unspecified / intentionally deleted ) contributions.
<b>I really feel (very) safe, and (much ) welcomed , posting (rants) in "lounge".</b>
Such a nice "beer " crowd.
PS
Not to worry - I have decided to ask programming questions elsewhere, mainly because this forum uses AI and limits "nice , non personally offensive answers " to "...read a book ...".
So, you are safe.
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The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Just guessing he was trying to ask a programming question... dunno.
Jeremy Falcon
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No he's just the latest incarnation of a person who thinks we all work for him. Time to wield the stick yet again.
modified 27-Jul-24 5:45am.
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If you have a stick Richard use it 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Trouble is, it's a very small one. 
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A duck's quack has a soft echo. This is loud echos of blah blah blah. Duck would probably type out a more coherent complaint too.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Duck would probably type out a more coherent complaint too
Truth. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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And then bill you for it.
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Fortunately (for you) the door is open and you are free to leave.
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