Talk:Snap-on

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Worth?

What do you mean the company is worth $2.4B? Is that net assets or what? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.72.53.124 (talk) 10:26, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps this is market value, shares times market price, but still unlikely to be current. I think it should be removed. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:38, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Misleading?

From this article:

"Pioneering the idea of interchangeable sockets and wrench handles, Joseph Johnson and William Seidemann formed the Snap-on Wrench Company in 1920. The company manufactured and marketed ten sockets that would "snap on" to five interchangeable handles, a concept that created the modern socket wrench and revolutionized the tool industry."

However, from the article on the socket wrench (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_wrench), we have:

"The modern socket wrench, with interchangeable sockets, was invented by an American J.J. Richardson, of Woodstock, Vt. The tool was patented through the Scientific American Patent Agency on the 18th of June, 1863. The first illustration of the tool appears on pg. 248 of the April 16, 1864 issue of Scientific American. Previously, sockets were attached to the handle, so different-sized nuts required different wrenches."

The interchangeable socket wrench was invented or patented in 1863, nearly 60 years before the Snap-on Wrench Company was formed.

The paragraph above as part of the Snap-on article is extremely misleading, suggesting that the Snap-on Wrench Company created the modern socket wrench and revolutionized the tool industry, when it did no such thing.

Perhaps an edit is in order?

209.237.75.130 (talk) 22:18, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

So, then, I guess I'll do it. 209.237.75.130 (talk) 19:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Scientific American Patent Agency

The reference to "Scientific American Patent Agency" sounds like nonsense; I've never heard of such a thing. The Constitution of the United States provided for patents from the beginning of the Republic, and patents in the United States have always been exclusively issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Maybe this was the name of a law firm, although even that seems unlikely. 15:55, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

It is indeed the name of a law firm. "Agency" does not merely (or even usually) refer to a US government institution. It often refers to, you know, agents. The Scientific American Patent Agency was part of the Munn & Co. law firm that, at the height of its activities, was responsible for prosecuting an astonishing 1/3 of all patents being issued by the U.S. Patent Office. See [1]. TJRC (talk) 20:02, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Have added some cited information, needs a tidy if anybody cares to do it. Drappel (talk) 20:11, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

blue point

snap on also makes blue point tools, they also own JH Williams and other tool groups should this be talked about? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tex downey (talk • contribs) 16:35, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

director of snap-on and his funeral

Can we please mention Nigel Leavesley of Hasland in Derbyshire, England? He personally funded this funeral and has his ashes in an urn in his room. this is just one example of Mr. Leavesley's dedication to the Snap-On tools company. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.150.216.49 (talk) 16:02, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Got any links? A Google search turns up nothing notable about a "Nigel Leavesley", and nothing at all about any Nigel in relation to Snap-On. 98.232.219.86 (talk) 16:35, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Whose funeral? What name? 95.149.54.29 (talk) 12:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Calander

This article could use a mention about the Snap on calendar. That man from Nantucket (talk) 06:48, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Opening paragraph

"Snap-on Inc. is an American designer, manufacturer and marketer of high end tools and equipment to professional tool users." The use of the phrase professional tool users is not worthy of an encyclopaedia entry being somewhat patronising. May I suggest it would be better replaced with something like: Snap-on Inc. is an American designer, manufacturer and marketer of high end, high quality tools and equipment, primarily purchased by the mechanical and automotive engineering professional. I am not a fan-boy of Snap-on, I came here to learn a bit more about the company producing these much coveted over-priced shiny trinkets!

Edits, References and Racing

Making some history section edits to rewrite per the Prose template and looking for references to replace press releases. I also think there are more recent racing sponsorships including Dale Earnhardt and certainly others since 1998. Jmbld (talk) 23:55, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Source question

https://segd.org/ is used to source some content under the History section and I'm not sure if this is credible or reliable, what are the standards of this particular site? It is unclear who the author is and reads in promotional way. Wondering if this would be considered to meet the Wikipedia Guidelines or not? Jmbld (talk) 17:33, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Sales approach section

I'm having trouble finding WP:RS that support this section. It is highly detailed and a at least a few lines lean towards WP:PROMO. I may trim and wrap into Operations. Jmbld (talk) 22:44, 16 September 2022 (UTC)