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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
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<blockquote data-quote="greg brillus" data-source="post: 81711" data-attributes="member: 597"><p>Slightly off topic, but anyway............Years ago when I was doing my apprenticeship I used to do volunteer work at a local museum on weekends helping a couple of old blokes who were restoring some vintage cars. There were lots of old memorabilia around the walls including many old tools, oil cans and the like. Up on one of the walls, I was looking at a very early version of a "Socket set" made many years ago. One of the old chaps who was extremely knowledgeable on the vintage cars told me that years ago the "Then" inventor of this socket set had gone to several Tool manufacturers at that time looking to see if one might be interested in his "New design" at some point he approached "The Crescent tool co" who upon inspecting his new idea told him that this would never take off and he was basically wasting his time. How wrong could they have been......And for many, many years "Crescent" never made any socket sets.......... Perhaps too embarrassed by their lack of foresight all those years ago. We generally think of a "Crescent" as an adjustable spanner/wrench to which I'm sure they've sold many thousands of these useful tools ..............Imagine if they'd got the patent on "Socket sets"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greg brillus, post: 81711, member: 597"] Slightly off topic, but anyway............Years ago when I was doing my apprenticeship I used to do volunteer work at a local museum on weekends helping a couple of old blokes who were restoring some vintage cars. There were lots of old memorabilia around the walls including many old tools, oil cans and the like. Up on one of the walls, I was looking at a very early version of a "Socket set" made many years ago. One of the old chaps who was extremely knowledgeable on the vintage cars told me that years ago the "Then" inventor of this socket set had gone to several Tool manufacturers at that time looking to see if one might be interested in his "New design" at some point he approached "The Crescent tool co" who upon inspecting his new idea told him that this would never take off and he was basically wasting his time. How wrong could they have been......And for many, many years "Crescent" never made any socket sets.......... Perhaps too embarrassed by their lack of foresight all those years ago. We generally think of a "Crescent" as an adjustable spanner/wrench to which I'm sure they've sold many thousands of these useful tools ..............Imagine if they'd got the patent on "Socket sets" [/QUOTE]
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