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Jun 9, 2020 | 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Sierra Nate

Did gramps play with model airplanes by chance? I had a wrench like the one in the bottom of the pic when I built RC planes . The various size spanner wrenches used to remove the glow plugs. Squirt bottle allowed priming them. Its been a long time since I messed around with them tho. I could be completely off base.

that spanner looks like the right size for glow plugs. maybe not so much as a factory kit for something. looks like maybe someone needed a pouch to put their collection of tools in. no idea about the goggles. not sure when the stamped metal tools came in to play. but i would think anything 30s-40s would be forged and not stamped.

Jun 9, 2020 | 08:09 AM

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can we see a pic of the goggles?

Jun 9, 2020 | 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Oldskewl

Hard to imagine a bicycle came with a tool bag with so many different odd shaped wrenches.I'd think that little clear bottle is not from the 30's or it would be cracked (maybe not) but usually anything from the 30's -40'd would have been in a metal can, not a plastic whatever that is( chain oil holder?).
Whatever it is, it's old because nobody give you anything like that anymore.

I never meant the tools came with one bicycle. They might have been acquired from more than one bicycle over the years.

The reason I say “bicycle” is the bag. It’s the right size and shape to attach to the bag loops on the back of a bicycle saddle. I used to have a similar bag I used with my first ten-speed bicycle many years ago.

Jun 9, 2020 | 09:54 AM

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Those look like stamped bike wrenches. Years of restoring English bikes. If you have an English bicycle, try matching sizes to various bolts.
English stuff is Whitworth size, not SAE or metric.
The reason you see many rounded nuts on English bicycles.
For proper wrenching on these bikes, I have a "King Dick" set of combination wrenches, high quality but expensive. Look for a vintage King Dick adjustable for your collection, amazing quality.
I would run across many stamped wrenches and sell for good money on-line.
The most common is not in your collection, the last is probably not English.