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Stanley Proto & Plomb Tools - Company History & Lore
In this video we go over the history of Proto Industrial Tools.
From their beginnings in a blacksmith shop in Los Angelas as Plomb Tools,
to their lawsuit with Plumb over hammers and the rebranding to Proto,
to Protomex in Mexico, which spun off into Urrea Herramientas,
to acquisitions by Ingersol Rand, and finally by Stanley,
Proto has been making PROfessional TOols for over 100 years.
Plomb company history:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090422045844/http://plombtools.com/CompanyHistory.aspx
http://alloy-artifacts.org/plomb-tool.html
https://www.vannattabros.com/plomb/plombtool.html
Plumb v Plomb lawsuit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070516013744/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,853600,00.html
Proto Company history:
http://alloy-artifacts.org/proto-empire.html
Plomb Catalogs & "Anvil Chorus" Newsletters:
https://archive.org/search?query=plomb+tools
Proto Catalogs:
https://archive.org/search?query=proto+tool
Urrea:
https://www.vannattabros.com/saw51.html
https://urrea.com/informacion/corporativo
Proto Brand Redesign:
https://www.prioritydesigns.com/content/tool-brand-development-and-visual-brand-language/
Morris Pendleton Obitiary:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-24-me-24573-story.html
00:00 Intro
00:17 The Birth of Plomb
01:01 The Hammer Issue pt 1
01:52 The Combination Wrench
02:15 1940's Expansion
03:28 The Hammer Issue pt 2
04:12 1950's Expansion
04:48 Urrea, Ingersol Rand & Stanley
05:40 Blackhawk Ressurection
06:30 Dat Flying Lady Tho
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