Saturday, July 6, 2013

Handles of screwdrivers

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In the U.S., plastic screwdriver handles follow on the shape of wooden handles.

In the U.K. that's true too, only their wooden handles were round, rather than square.



[photo from car boot sale late May 2013]

3 comments:

AnnieLou said...

That's interesting - I hadn't realised that the handles were different in the 2 countries. In Australia we tend to follow the American model (which is also interesting since I would have thought our first screwdrivers here came from the UK....)

Betula said...

They're not different! Most plastic screwdriver handles in the uk are those square ridged one as in the top image :)

Sandra Dodd said...

That just means you have some like ours. We don't have round handles like some of yours, except maybe on older awls.