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Originally Posted by A930Rocket
Doh! I didn’t think to look there. 44 would make sense.
That would make it 79 years old.
My grandfather did work at the Charleston Naval Yard during the war. My dad also worked there during the summer, when school was out at Clemson.
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That explains it..the E for "emergency"...during the war years, our fortunately untouched industrial might was cranked up to full speed ahead. Everything connected towards the war effort was an "emergency"...including tool production.
Thinking about it, you don't just have your grandfather's old ratchet, you have a piece of WWII history. A period when thousands with your grandfather's hand skills and also thousands of "Rosie the Riveter" women, pitched in to aid in the war effort. This ratchet was purposely made to aid in that effort. It's marking shows this.