General Industrial Sales, Inc., doing business as Metal Items, sold a small vise, the Mikro-Vise No. 10, in 1949. Other products included the Mikro-Marker height gauge. The true manufacturer(s) of these products is unknown.
Information Sources
- 1949-05-12 Racine Journal Times has a small classified ad: "A Quality tools give you More for your Money. A name Brand tools in Stock. Cleveland Belv Simonds Williams Chr Manning Yale & Towne buy at general Industrial Sales Inc. 820 Sixth St."
- New Equipment Digest, Vol. 14, No. 9, Sep. 1949, Pg. 7.
- Popular Science, Vol. 154, No. 5, May 1949, Pg. 288.
- 1950 Racine City Directory. "GENERAL INDUSTRIAL SALES INC, R O FLANSBURG PRES-TREAS, W P CLARK V-PRES, H W HOLM SEC, INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES and EQUIPMENT 822 6th, TEL 4-3371"