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The pictured item is 32 long by 9 inches high x 11 inches deep.
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Buoy for a lifeguard
This is a red metal Atomic-era toolbox in the shape of a bomb marked “Bantam Porto-Power” and “A Product of Blackhawk.” Original paint and decals, c.1948.
It is a Zeppelin-shaped portable tool box for a Porto-Power air and hydraulic driven air pump vacuum cleaner with a built-in sewing kit.
Too easy, the name is on the side. Antique Torpedo Tool Box
This one is easy 🙂 It’s a tool box 🙂
I thought it was a sewing kit within a tiny version of an actual product as the outside form.
An old tool box.
1940s Blackhawk Torpedo Toolbox.
It’s a tool box
Tool box for hydraulic tools for body shops
It’s a vacuum cleaner.
It’s a Zepplien
1940’s Tool Box.
This is a 1940’s era Blackhawk Bantam Porto Power bomb- or torpedo-shaped tool box. Top half separates from bottom by unscrewing “detonator” on front end
My guess is a 1930-1940’s vacuum canister style. It seems zepplin shaped or the late 40’s new age UFO space age mid century so popular during his 50’s. But a canister vacuum all the same.
I agree with gmg3isl3r who stated it was an Art Deco style power toolbox. I’ve never seen one of these but it has quite a unique design. At first thought, it was a metal toy blimp. LOL
This is a portable art deco tool-box containing a porto-power kit which is a hydraulic pump with attachments used in auto-body shops; one attachment is like a mini jaws-of-life, the other is a jack along with threaded poles for adding length. The wheels on the box is due to the weight of the tools inside.
1940s Blackhawk Bantam Porto Power Torpedo Tool Box
I believe from the design of it that it is a 1950’s Vacuum Cleaner.
It’s a rolling tool box.
The wording on the side implies an air pump of some sort, but I recall that the earliest “cannister” type vacuum cleaners looked like this, too. Will be interesting to find out! Has the time clock setting on replies been corrected?!
Vacuum
A vacuum cleaner.
A 1940’s tool box.
Air pump
Tool box – opened by unscrewing the lock on the end. My Dad had one that he would take to class at the high school class he taught that would have the tools that he was displaying that day or week. His had a place for a padlock that he could lock between classes so his tools would be there for the next class and not go bye-bye.
Toolbox
Tool box.
vacuum cleaner
It’s a tool box.
Vacuum cleaner
This item is a vacuum cleaner
Vacuum cleaner?
Metal tool boxes made in the 40’s.
Tool box.
It’s a metal tool box