The Ford Barn

sprink88 · 03-10-2013, 12:06 PM

Are there any tool checks known for the Twin Cities assembly plant? I would like to get my hands on one of those since that is where my car was produced.

fordy_nine · 03-19-2013, 07:34 PM

When I started working (1961) at a General Motors Division in Dayton OH, they also called them tool checks.....Bob L

Tommy Gun · 04-02-2013, 04:12 PM

Those chits are the shit....I need one for a key chain in my Model A..

Strick · 08-15-2022, 06:44 AM

Old post…..but acquired this one recently. Guess I need to find a 1939 Ford next!

Jake dalka · 08-15-2022, 07:37 AM

Used tool checks/chits like that in high school shop class…..tool room guy was a week long assignment

T Scott · 08-16-2022, 09:17 AM

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Reminds me of when I was an apprentice at the GE Riverworks plant in Lynn Massachusetts. Some unsuspecting "newbie" would be sent to the tool crib to check out a "size 3 uterus borer". Of course, the guy in the crib would play along and tell the kid it was over in building 32 and send him over there. The guy in building 32 would do the same and by the time somebody clued him in the poor kid had spent half a day tromping all over the plant!

APDAVE · 08-16-2022, 03:30 PM

When I started at the Rouge Plant in 1965 I was issued 6 tool checks with the same number as My badge. When you took a tool from the crib you left a check and got it back upon its return. Different buildings Had different letters as there were twelve plants in the Rouge. Dave

Mtn Wudy · 08-17-2022, 01:55 AM

I'd love to find an Iron Mtn. one...Where they built the "Wooden Bodies.."

nelsb01 · 08-17-2022, 05:41 AM

Yes, there are Twin Cities Ford Assembly Plant and multiple Iron Mountain tool tags.
The Iron Mountain ones occasionally show up on eBay.
The Twin Cities -- you have to be in the right place at the right time to find those.

Rougewelder · 11-18-2022, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by sprink88

Are there any tool checks known for the Twin Cities assembly plant? I would like to get my hands on one of those since that is where my car was produced.

I have a Twin Cities, very hard to come by.

nelsb01 · 11-18-2022, 09:57 AM

Interesting that there is no employee number on it.

Ray in La Mesa · 11-18-2022, 11:39 AM

I have collected a number of both badges & tool chits that are unstamped. They are rarer but not impossible to find.

petehoovie · 11-18-2022, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Rougewelder

I have a Twin Cities, very hard to come by.

nelsb01 · 11-18-2022, 02:36 PM

Mine

petehoovie · 11-18-2022, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by nelsb01

Mine

Rougewelder · 11-19-2022, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by nelsb01

Mine

Very cool, I have a Twin City badge as well. I'm a badge collector myself. Love this stuff, if you have any cool extras, let me know.
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03-10-2013, 12:06 PM	#41
sprink88 Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 39	Re: \"Tool Chits\" Are there any tool checks known for the Twin Cities assembly plant? I would like to get my hands on one of those since that is where my car was produced.

03-19-2013, 07:34 PM	#42
fordy_nine Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Springboro. Ohio Posts: 212	Re: \"Tool Chits\" When I started working (1961) at a General Motors Division in Dayton OH, they also called them tool checks.....Bob L

04-02-2013, 04:12 PM	#43
Tommy Gun Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Cleveland Posts: 80	Re: \"Tool Chits\" Those chits are the shit....I need one for a key chain in my Model A..

08-15-2022, 07:37 AM	#45
Jake dalka Member Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: Middletown, PA Posts: 31	Re: \"Tool Chits\" Used tool checks/chits like that in high school shop class…..tool room guy was a week long assignment

08-16-2022, 09:17 AM	#46
T Scott Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: East Boothbay, Maine Posts: 277	Re: \"Tool Chits\" Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Reminds me of when I was an apprentice at the GE Riverworks plant in Lynn Massachusetts. Some unsuspecting "newbie" would be sent to the tool crib to check out a "size 3 uterus borer". Of course, the guy in the crib would play along and tell the kid it was over in building 32 and send him over there. The guy in building 32 would do the same and by the time somebody clued him in the poor kid had spent half a day tromping all over the plant!

08-16-2022, 03:30 PM	#47
APDAVE Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 228	Re: \"Tool Chits\" When I started at the Rouge Plant in 1965 I was issued 6 tool checks with the same number as My badge. When you took a tool from the crib you left a check and got it back upon its return. Different buildings Had different letters as there were twelve plants in the Rouge. Dave

08-17-2022, 01:55 AM	#48
Mtn Wudy Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Montrose,CO Posts: 226	Re: \"Tool Chits\" I'd love to find an Iron Mtn. one...Where they built the "Wooden Bodies.." __________________ Whether you think that you can,or that you can't,you are usually right....H.Ford

08-17-2022, 05:41 AM	#49
nelsb01 Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Up North Posts: 626	Re: \"Tool Chits\" Yes, there are Twin Cities Ford Assembly Plant and multiple Iron Mountain tool tags. The Iron Mountain ones occasionally show up on eBay. The Twin Cities -- you have to be in the right place at the right time to find those.

11-18-2022, 09:57 AM	#51
nelsb01 Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Up North Posts: 626	Re: \"Tool Chits\" Interesting that there is no employee number on it.

11-18-2022, 11:39 AM	#52
Ray in La Mesa Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: La Mesa Ca Posts: 1,166	Re: \"Tool Chits\" I have collected a number of both badges & tool chits that are unstamped. They are rarer but not impossible to find.

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