The company manufactured vises from 1876 or earlier to at least 1926. The company was founded circa 1876 as C. S. Bonney & Son, changed to Bonney Vise & Tool Co. Ltd. in 1881, reorganized as Bonney Vise & Tool Works circa 1890, and changed to Bonney Forge & Tool Works in 1921.
Bonney Vise Models:
- Ajax (machinist, patternmakers/woodworkers)
- Bonney (bench and pipe, hand)
- Champion (machinist, portable, bench)
- Farmers (bench, bench and pipe)
- Hercules (machinist)
- Indispensable (pipe)
- Lehigh (bench)
- Standard (portable)
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