Aerial view of Woden Works, from 1957 catalogue
Vice (vise), hand tool, and steel products manufacturer The Steel Nut & Joseph Hampton Ltd., Woden Works, Wednesbury dates to 1897 with that name, and originally to 1851. In 1957 the company founded Woden Tools Ltd. for its hand tool business. Woden Tools Ltd. was taken over in 1961 by Record of Sheffield. Production moved to Sheffield, where Woden tools were manufactured until the early 1970s.
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