Don H. Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 A friend who's been involved with TRs for over fifty years gave me this from his mostly-junk stash a year or two ago. He was pretty sure it's British and thought it might have originally been from Jaguar, but those are just guesses. It's unmarked and doesn't quite look like any tool roll I've run into. Does it look familiar to anyone? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john.r.davies Posted September 7, 2021 Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 (edited) Identical item on sale, online, but with no details of origin: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-classic-car-tool-roll-leather-1774898637 Maybe the vendor can tell you more? But it's very similar to one advertised on eBay, as "Made in USSR. Application unknown - possibly Lada" https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234041395280?hash=item367df44850:g:ueoAAOSwmDtgu5Tg John Edited September 7, 2021 by john.r.davies Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted September 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 Well spotted, John! It's gotta be from a Lada. Your pix and others online are unmistakeable. Lada, expecting people would be doing their own work on their simple cars, put in a fairly complete tool kit, so the size and cheap-ish construction of my tool roll make sense. Funny thing is that Lada never distributed cars in the US, as far as I know. Canada did get Ladas for a time in the 1980s and 1990s -- I can remember seeing Nivas once in a while in the northeast of the US and in Atlantic Canada back then. Somehow this tool roll made it to the midwestern US... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roger murray-evans Posted September 9, 2021 Report Share Posted September 9, 2021 I bought one of these, secondhand, from the Beaulieu autojumble about 10 years ago.Paid £6 for it.As I was walking back to my own stall a chap coming towards me asked if I knew what it was from, no says I, it's from a Lada says he!For me they are the most practical, reasonably priced and 'period authentic' tool roll I've seen. I think the consensus it being Lada is pretty conclusive. Roger M-E Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim D. Posted September 9, 2021 Report Share Posted September 9, 2021 There’s a lada tool roll on ebay if you want to compare Lada tool roll cheers tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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