Lawn maintenance and tools technical files--workshop tools, 1920-1981.

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Lawn maintenance and tools technical files--workshop tools, 1920-1981.

The records document Consumers' Research's testing, research, and projects relating to the use and reliability of domestic power and hand tools. Included are correspondence, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, product literature, test results, operating manuals, advertisements, and purchase orders. Products represented include general tools, electric power tools, reaming and routing machines, sanders and sand paper, grinders, sifting and sorting devices, saws, chain saws, jig saws, lathes, drilling machines, spraying devices such as aerosol sprayers, compressors, pumps, welders, soldering tools, and various means of attachment tools such as nuts, bolts, screws, screwdrivers, and wrenches.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...