Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Identify this plane maker Please!
Ernie Miller topeka
>I bought me a pannel raising plane today and it is not in m book of American plane makers. I think it is Europen. it says ACIER FONDUCARANTI PEUGEOT Cie and it has an elephant in the middel of all this wrighting. It's a keeper although it is missing the wedge nice 2" squed iron great patina. any help would be apreciated. I also picked up a rather odd looking block plane a #103 I'll have to clean it up to find out more.
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HC Sakman
>It's French! Peugeot is a popular French car which some were sold here I belive. 405/505 and 605's. Anyway... Probably it was cast in the same foundry. "ACIER FONDU GARANTI" means "Guaranteed Cast Steel".
Chico...
Re: Identify this plane maker Please!
Ernie Miller topeka
>Cool does that mean I have a racing plane? actually the blade says that the plane is user made and quite somthing to look at. Might post a picture for you aoo to laugh at.
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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>Peugeot sold cars here before the 404/405. My dad had a 403 on his lot. Neat car, one of the first cars sold in the U.S. with a sunroof standard. The gas cap was behind the left taillight, like the 1957 Chevy and early 1950's Cadillacs, but I believe Peugeot did it first.
They also made bicycles which were, in my youth, considered quite droolworthy - though I have to confess I was always an English bicycle fan. Raleigh, Triumph (not the one with the motor), etc.
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Jim DeLaney, Tustin, CA
>Bill,
Just to be correct - the '57 Chevy had the gas filler in the left tail fin. In the '56, it was behind the tail light...
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Frank D. in Montreal
>Peugot also makes the best pepper grinders money can buy. A pepper grinder is a hand tool, isn'r it?
Frank
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Rossmoor Galoot
>Ernie,
I have an old tongue and groove plane with a Peugeot Freres irons. Here's what I found after Googling:
Peugeot celebrated its 100th automotive anniversary in 1998 but its history stretches back a further 88 years and encompasses an incredibly diverse range of products. Now part of the massive PSA industrial conglomerate that includes Citroen, the Peugeot dynasty has classically humble beginnings. Brothers, Jean-Pierre and Jean-Frederic Peugeot decided to manufacture cold rolled steel in the family mill on the Doubs river in eastern France. Fine steel strips and springs were sold to the nearby Swiss clock-making industry and by 1818 the Peugeot Freres had moved into producing steel for tools, mainly saw blades. By 1824, 70 workers toiled in the factory at Herimoncourt and in 1850 the famous Peugeot trademark, the rampant Lion, was being used to mark Peugeot's top grade of steel. The king of beasts was formerly registered as a trademark in 1858.
I fettled the plane and found the irons to be of good quality. You've got a keeper!
Look here Ernie - pics of european patents *LINK*
Andrew F in Australia
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http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/europaeisch.phtml
Great link!
Wiley Horne--Glendora CA
>And a very fine and lasting piece of work by Wolfgang Jordan.
Wiley
Re: Look here Ernie - pics of european patents
Ernie Miller topeka
>Thanks I see my blade there but can't read a lick of the text any one know how to convert it to English? if you fallof the Peugeot it is the lower blade.
Translation *LINK*
Andrew F in Australia
>Sources of information: OWN Peugeot manufactured not always only cars, but an eventful and long history. Details are to be experienced on this side. Drills for example were manufactured from 1860 to 1970. The lion as brand names is since 1850 registered registered trade mark and is for the special quality of the goods. For the quality of the steel Peugeot beside the lion used still different brand names. The lion was used for saws and forged tools. It became later in the today's form (standing) the registered trade mark for cars, bicycles and motorcycles. The halbmond stands for steel kept at a moderate temperature and is for example on drilling hoists.
Google's auto-translator used to do this
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Art Geiger
>I think Peugeot of France made a lot more than cars and bicycles, but I do recall seeing a screw-stem plough plane with 'Peugeot Freres' (i.e. Peugeot Brothers) on it. It obviously had some vintage and I had thought that it wasn't European but French-Canadian.