Salmen Plane & A Hildick

[Harbo]

A friend recently gave me a Salmen beech 17" Jack Plane which has a blade by A Hildick Sheffield. (I also have a nice bevel edged chisel by A Hildick with a boxwood handle).

A search on Google did not result in much info. other than the Archives are held in the Hawley Collection but Aaron Hildick is listed 1846 to 1950. And from an Ebay catalogue sale - Salmen was founded in 1850.

Anybody got any further information on them?
Thanks in anticipation.

Rod

 

[Harbo]

Sorry the plane is a Salmen not Salem!



Rod

 

[Alf]

[reaches for well-thumbed copy of British Planemakers, hums quietly while turning the pages, O, P, further on, T, oops, back a bit, Smith, Shepley, Salmen]

SALMEN'S, A.B., SUCCESSORS Ltd........LONDON
Chiswell St..............................................1926-1967
91 Gt Eastern St......................................1932>
Angel Rd. Works, Edmonton......................1932-1967
1926: R. Waxman bought the long-established business of A.B. Salmen, dealers in sharpening stones, and added Successors Ltd. to the name. In 1937, the firm acquired the trademark and goodwill of Charles Nurse & Co. Planes were marked either MASTER or with the Invicta trademark {prancing horse, like the symbol of the County of Kent} with "Late Charles Nurse & Co." inscribed underneath, or both. The firm ceased making planes by 1967.

I have a Salmen's block plane - I'd say they stopped making planes and started making doorstops a lot earlier than 1967... :roll: Not sure about the 1850 date - could be in reference to their stone-selling with BPMs is naturally silent on, and it's not unknown for firms who bought out another with an older starting date to take said date for their own. Anyway, that's all I've got.

Aaron Hildick, Woodside Works, Sheffield, BPMs has 1860-1960 fwiw. Used the "Diamic" trademark if my notes are to be believed (got to get in the habit of writing a bit more than just "Diamic"? in pencil... #-o ) and bought Henry Taylor.

Cheers, Alf

 

[Harbo]

Thanks for the info Alf - I have since found out from my friend that he bought the plane new in 1962 when he started his training course at Shoreditch.
So both firms must have been around in some guise then?

Rod

 

[DomValente]

Chiswell St..............................................1926-1967

about 500 yds. from Tyzack's

Dom

 

[Smudger]

I've got a Salmen's Bailey-type, about a #7 size. It keeps the shed door open in high winds...

 

[tomjotomjo]

ab salmen lived in mile end road london , his dad S. salmen started oil stone in 1850

 

[tomjotomjo]

if you googe ab salmen you we find his card.