N1072 Vintage TURNER Australia No.5 1/2 JACK PLANE IOB

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Vintage tools -  plane N1072

Up for sale is a very hard to find Australian made TURNER No.5 1/2 Jack plane in its original box. 

Only produced for 30+ years they are a cool piece of the Australian post WW2 manufacturing boom times, 60mm cutter.

“The TURNER story had a lifespan of only 35 years. It began in April 1935 and closed on the 30th of November 1970, when STANLEY TITAN acquired the business, and either absorbed or ceased to manufacture the TURNER products from that date.

In 1935, Rene William TURNER, aged 27 years, formed a small company, trading as "Moderne Handles Company" in Chapel Street in South Yarra, Melbourne, with a staff of three people. By 1966, the Company, now named TURNER Industries Ltd, employed 1100 people.
TURNER acquired the patterns and details of its plane lines from POPE Products Ltd in Adelaide. The POPE (& FALCON) line of planes were a copy of the STANLEY USA range. TURNER redesigned the planes and introduced a unbreakable "Red Cellulose Acetate" front & rear handle, matching their screwdriver line.” - from the HTPAA web page.

Weight -  3.4kg

CONDITION

This plane is in authentic vintage condition, wear and tear consistent with age & use, the full original Turner blade, a possible railways asset number engraved on the body. A collector grade hard to find Turner 5 1/2 Jack. 

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