$10 · Canadian made Vintage Beach Tools Metal toolbox tool box

Shows wear but still functional with no dents. I bought this Canadian icon in the late 1970s 20 inches wide / 9.5 inches high / 8.5 inches deep In 1949, Russ Beach started a company in Smiths Falls, Ontario making metal toolboxes. He began with only 12 employees but by the 1980's Beach Industries Limited had become Canada's largest metal box manufacturer, with 200 employees and sales of over $20 million. Beach toolboxes found their way into the catalogues of Canadian Tire, Sears and Eaton's and from there into workshops all over the country. 1987, Mr. Beach turned 77 and sold his company to Stanley Tools, the Connecticut tool giant, which lost no time in taking down the Beach Industries Sign which had stood at the plant entrance for almost 40 years. In 2008, Stanley announced that the Smiths Falls plant would be closed