Tap and die set

[maple_leaf_eh]

You're talking my language! Butterfield's plant was in a little cluster of three Canadian villages right on the Vermont border. Stanstead where my mother was teaching school when she met and later married my father. Beebe (pronounced B and another B) and Rock Island sort of blur together only the river which forms some but not all of the border. Very typical New England mill towns with dams, industry, houses, twisty roads, and steep grades. Invariably moist from the spray of the waterfalls too. The other industry in the area is granite quarries for gray dull coloured granite stones. The company presently carving my father's headstone is a bit north of Rock Island in the bucolic area of Odgen.

The company went on strike or was bought out, forget just which. The owners folded it up and moved away. Quite a shock because those were well paying high status precision industry jobs.

[stephen crowhurst]

Yes it looks a good well made set born out by the fact that it is still about. I tend to by old tools as they are generally far better quality than the crap you get now. Unfortunately the seller is asking a bit too much otherwise I would have snapped it up.

Cheers Stephen

[maple_leaf_eh]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanst...ebec#Geography

[stephen crowhurst]

Just looking on Google earth and it looks a nice area, right on the boarder. Must be a handy place to live.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by stephen crowhurst

Just looking on Google earth and it looks a nice area, right on the boarder. Must be a handy place to live.

My hometown is 25 miles to the north. This is where my father's family had a large trucking business. Some of the most bucolic countryside in the Eastern Townships is just north of Stanstead. There are little villages on the various watercourses, with small odd-shaped fields, and productive farms. One farmer's circular dairy barn survives.

[stephen crowhurst]

A good place to run about in your M151A2 I should think.

[rob love]

Almost wasn't...Quebec tried to ban civilian owned military vehicles from the roadways a year or so ago.