Identifying small bench plane

[Peter Capon]

Can anyone help to identify this small plane I picked up at a brickabrack stall for £12.50
7 1/2" long with a 1 9/16" wide blade, no chip breaker, cap iron has no2 on it and M5 on the back bit like a type 51 spokeshave iron, 45 degree built in frog and the blade was roughly ground to 25 degrees. PS has British made on body.

 

[AndyT]

It's hard to tell from one rather dark photo. I'd guess it was a cheap plane for the 1950s / 60s diy market. It might have been made to sell in somewhere like Woolworths or in a hardware shop as a basic model for less than a branded Stanley or Record.

 

[Peter Capon]

My other pix are all larger than 2mb so can post them can you give me an email address

Pete

 

[Sheffield Tony]

There are a few variants of "No 2" planes - Whitmore comes to mind as a maker's name - which all look a bit like the picture. Try Googling "Plane Whitmore No 2" for some pictures. I use one given to me by Secret Santa as a scrub plane with a heavily cambered iron, for which it works well.

 

[AndyT]

I reckon Tony's got it - the groove on a blue painted lever cap is pretty distinctive.

Graces Guide tells us Whitmore was a brand name of Branson Baker Ltd and provides some ads from the 50s and 60s:

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Branson_Baker

 

[MikeG.]

My other pix are all larger than 2mb so can post them can you give me an email address

Pete

Pixresizer. It's a freebie, and works in seconds on a whole folder of photos.

 

[Peter Capon]

thanks everyone I googled and no-2-as-a-scrub-plane-t76285.html came up small world. I re-edged at 25 degrees and blunted it on a piece of pine in a few strokes maybe a new blade or I might try to re-harden it first. I assume as it's 45 degrees + 25 degree bevel it should be bevel down.

 

[Peter Capon]

Found a similar size but much thicker record blade on eBay for £5. Flattened and edged it and after a bit of tinkering getting the blade in the right place it now takes wafer thin shavings. Surprisingly it's a very nice little plane. I'll revamping it, give it a good clean, a coat of Smoothrite, reshape the handles, give it a polish and put it in service.

Thanks everyone who replied

PS picked up a Este jack plane red thing for £4 going to have a play