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Old 28th Apr 2019, 6:17 pm   #103
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Default Re: Show us your drills!

My late father had - in the 1960s - a UK-made "Desoutter" diecast-cased electric drill that he swore was infinitely better than the Stanley/B&D/Wolf generic consumer electric-drills then available.

He'd had close working contacts with the aviation-industry in the post-WWII decade and Desoutter tools - both electric- and compressed-air-powered - were what Supermarine, Blackburn, De Havilland, Bristol, Martin-Baker, English Electric, Gloster, Vickers, Handley-Page, Avro, Fairey, Saunders-Roe etc were all using on their production-lines for drilling, sanding, polishing, rivetting.

Desoutter still exist: https://www.desouttertools.com/about-desoutter/history
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