A. B. Jardine Co. primarily made blacksmiths' supplies, including post drills, drill presses, taps and dies, hub borers, forge blowers, "Canadian Giant" power hammers, tire upsetters, tongs, vises, and wrenches. They also made water pumps: the kind with the handle, used for pumping household water from a well. Around 1900 they made Ridgid pipe wrenches under license from Ridgid. They also had considerable success with pipe cutting and threading tools, built on their own patented designs.
We have also seen a pony planer of 1870s or '80s design with "A. B. Jardine / Hespeler, Ont." cast into the base.
Information Sources
- A. B. Jardine Co. catalog B-20, 1927, courtesy of Phil Sponem