Wood Chisel 14mm 5002 Bevel Edge 0-16-542 Silver/Blue

OverviewThe Stanley Works was founded by Frederick Trent Stanley in 1843, originally a bolt and door hardware manufacturing company located in New Britain, Connecticut. The Stanley Rule and Level Company was founded in 1857 by Henry Stanley in New Britain, Connecticut. In 1920, this company merged with the separate but related Stanley Works, founded by Henry Stanley's cousin Frederick Trent Stanley, and continued operating as its hand tools division. Around 1937, Stanley acquired the British J. A. Chapman company, a British manufacturer of carpentry tools and other items (including bayonets during World War I) formerly located in Sheffield, from Norman Neill. This helped Stanley to enter the British market. Stanley is a well known brand of tools and has produced millions of hand planes, saws, rulers, try squares, chisels, screwdrivers, and many other types of tools for consumer and for industrial use. Their innovations include the Bailey plane, the Surform shaper, the PowerLock tape measure, the utility knife, and an unusual multitool known as the Stanley. The Stanley family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Stanley families were found in the USA in 1880. In 1891 there were 2,007 Stanley families living in London. This was about 15% of all the recorded Stanley's in the UK. London had the highest population of Stanley families in 1891.