Bill

I may have the brother box to yours.   In the first pic, you can see there
is a plastic clear plate on top.  When posted for sale on CL, there was a
name there.  The seller removed the name, but left the plastic.  I didn't
think to grab it to research his name, service record, etc.  The label
under the lid says it is part of the Bighorn Series. The brown one I
started with is a 516, the green is a different style, and does not have
the half width drawers on top.  Like the 620 pictured here, listed as dark
green color, not pine green.
https://archive.org/details/KennedyMfgCoNov1945/page/n1/mode/1up

https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-LRsJckM

Mine also has two round knobs on each drawer.  I wonder if that was a
downgrade for military users from the rectangular pulls, or just the line
feature. Mine seem like stamped tin or aluminum
https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-Hn56HG7

I will add a pic of the label and other features, and put it in my Kennedy
folder.

I should have clarified that I was only looking at the 5 series boxes in my
features study.  Will update for the next revision.

Thanks for the time points, I will notate more as I go forward.

And those Dzus tools were also called Snoopy tools (as others have told me)

Kirk in Half Moon Bay, Ca, still hazy, but no longer as damp.

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 1:35 PM Bill Ghio  wrote:

>
>
> > On May 9, 2022, at 6:35 PM, Kirk Eppler via groups.io  gene.com@g...> wrote:
> >
> > All
> >
> > I've been working on a reference for the different features on a vintage
> > Kennedy tool box, and the one I recently found gave me an excuse to test
> it
> > out.  You can download a copy of the KennedyFeatures pdf at the link
> below.
> >
> > https://app.box.com/s/j7mg2nsg2wd5lvbc526i8ghcms345kos
> >
> > If anyone has some good Kennedy literature or provenance that can help
> > close gaps, I'd love to hear it.
>
> Kirk,
>
> Can’t help you on the drawer removal issue, but maybe you will find this
> as an added data point.
>
> My dad was a machinist working for Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft up till
> 1943 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Aircraft ). After his
> slog thru France and Germany in 1944-45 he found other employment. Circa
> 1975 he gave me a Kennedy tool box and a few machinist tools. I downloaded
> your chart on the Kennedy boxes but don’t see where mine fits. The color is
> definitely green — Army green I would call it. Is that your Pine Tree of
> 1930? The box has a stenciled number on it — B24D — that is clearly not
> original. The knobs are non-magnetic so must be brass. Very grungy but
> probably originally nickel plated. They are round, neither oval or
> rectangular. Second pic shows there was a plate attached to the top that is
> now missing. Inside the lid is a partial label that says Kennedy but little
> is readable. the clasp says Kennedy just like yours does. I should have
> taken a better pic of the workbench barely visible behind the box. It came
> out of a WWII Navy destroyer that was being broken up in a shipyard in San
> Diego and my dad grabbed it. Perhaps the box came from a similar source,
> however I suspect it was his workbox c. 1940.
>
> Pics are at
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../albums/72177720299000941
>
> Bill


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Kirk Eppler in Half Moon Bay, CA