From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 09:07:53 PST
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To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Normandy Trivia
> I had no idea how rare my cresent was! I have an ambidextrous comination
metric/stand cresent wrench!
> Military issue with an XM-1 model number.
>
> I should try to get rich on e-bay, what should I start the bid at? Or
maybe that guy will trade me his half track for it!
You have to come up with a good story. Everyone likes a good story.
"The XM-1 Combination Metric/SAE Crescent Wrench was first field-tested at
the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground evaluation facility in 1943, and adopted
for use in the European Theatre in February, 1944. The wrench was rushed
into production in March 1944 in anticipation of D-Day requirements, and all
existing stocks were sent to Portsmouth, and then transferred to the Liberty
Ship 'William J.Clinton'. The Clinton was lost to enemy action in the early
hours of June 6, 1944, sending all existing stocks of 'Wrench, Combination
Metric/SAE XM-1' to the bottom of the Atlantic off the French coast. There
the story would end but for a band of intrepid salvage divers who discovered
the wreck in 1968, and recovered the cargo. The wrenches (still packed in
Cosmoline and in their original paraffin-paper wrapping) were warehoused in
Carentan until a fire destroyed the warehouse and contents in 1989, leaving
but a sole, salvageable item: one, single, solitary example of 'Wrench,
Combination Metric/SAE XM-1'. You now have the chance to own this
undeniably unique and rarest example of America's wartime manufacturing
might for little more than a First Mortgage, and make no mistake - this
opportunity will not reoccur in your lifetime!"
Man. I feel...unclean. Like I should go wash my hands or something. :)
P.T. Barnum
MVPA #0001
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