1/4 Drive Sets

[Cruiser808]

sweet set there, UB.

[Uncle Buck]

sweet set there, UB.

Not my set! 

[PowderKeg]

Didn't Bonney and Herbrand get absorbed in to the Triangle Corporation?

I was thinking Bon-e-con probably had to be a Bonney economy line, and if they merged with herbrand then my assumption could be correct.

From what little I've seen so far, that 1/4" Bon-e-con (and an identical Bonney ratchet) appeared in catalogs with 3/8" and 1/2" versions of the ratchet design below (top one), @/after Triangle acquired Herbrand to go along with Bonney.  I've yet to see a 1/4" version of this ratchet design, IMHO the poorest Bonney (and several other Triangle brands) ever designed.  The ultimate (and last) Bonney/Triangle design followed not long after, the big and reliable double pawl round head (bottom one).

A lot of fantastic sets here!  I've got a few I haven't seen posted yet, will have to try and find what box they got stuffed into, then find the ratchet in the ratchet boxes...

[CRTDI]

Agreed, most of the Triangle era stuff is not so nice..

[CRTDI]

A Craftsman 1/4" BE set with an elusive amber handled breaker bar.

[J.A.F.E.]

Wow just wow. That set is like new. The amber handles are almost always cracked or dark or both and the blue bands gone. That is a huge score.

[PowderKeg]

Wow just wow. That set is like new. The amber handles are almost always cracked or dark or both and the blue bands gone. That is a huge score.

Very cool!  I didn't know there were supposed to be blue bands on those handles.

[CRTDI]

At the moment this is the only amber handle piece that I have. Sure would be nice to score a matching amber handled plug ratchet...

[CRTDI]

Another Thorsen cousin, Giller.

[hickory n Steel]

Another Thorsen cousin, Giller.

I wasn't sure if I'd want a spinner handle, breaker bar, and sliding T in my set but seeing this confirms that I'll have to include all of it.
Now I've just gotta find a universal and I'll be all set 

[J.A.F.E.]

The Giller set is pristine. Nice example looks never used.

[Snaparxon]

The Giller set is pristine. Nice example looks never used.

Well it was probably government surplus

[skfarmer]

The Giller set is pristine. Nice example looks never used.

Well it was probably government surplus

or stolen from centerpunch.......

[J.A.F.E.]

or stolen from centerpunch.......

Ay carumba!

[CRTDI]

Vintage Bonney. My guess is that this set is from the late 50s.