NOT a Canadian Army Screwdriver

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Can anyone identify this screwdriver for me? I wouldn't ask on this forum, except it seems to have a Canadian military mark, broad arrow inside a "C". The screwdriver is 9.25 inches long. Thanks.

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Looks more like a chisel than a screwdriver to me... Maybe a parting wedge from a mechanic's toolbox? Depending on the size, might be for taking the head off an engine to replace the gasket.
 
The Broad Arrow is pointing the wrong way - it points vertically inside the letter C not towards the back of the C.

That mark is probably a manufacturers trade mark.
 
Lots of older farm implements had tools on bord them in special tool boxes hay rakes, mowers,bailer,combines and steam engines, Quite collectable may be it something to do with them . Old tool collector clubs could give a possible direction to follow. Old tools are just plain neet no plastics and made to last.
 
I suspected it might be a manufacturer's trademark.. It didn't quite remind me of a proper "broad arrow". Thank you very much for clearing that up for me.

37patt said:
The Broad Arrow is pointing the wrong way - it points vertically inside the letter C not towards the back of the C.

That mark is probably a manufacturers trade mark.
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I still remember my first Canadian military "screwdriver"...in the Sergeants Mess at the Penhold Airforce base when I was 15 or 16, after a group tour of the Mid-Canada line radar facility led by an Air Force Sergeant who was a fellow member of the Red Deer Motorcycle Club. You could ride a bike when you were 14 back then, so we all did. And apparently teenagers could drink in the Sergeants Mess.
donor said:
I was expecting picture of frozen orange juice and vodka...I gota get out more.
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grelmar said:
Looks more like a chisel than a screwdriver to me... Maybe a parting wedge from a mechanic's toolbox? Depending on the size, might be for taking the head off an engine to replace the gasket.
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I presume you don't mean a wedge to be driven between the head and the engine block. Any military mechanic doing that would probably end up doing a week in the glass house for damaging an engine that way. Maybe to pry up on an exterior component but certainly not driven between mating machined surfaces.
 
AP said:
I presume you don't mean a wedge to be driven between the head and the engine block. Any military mechanic doing that would probably end up doing a week in the glass house for damaging an engine that way. Maybe to pry up on an exterior component but certainly not driven between mating machined surfaces.
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Wasn't thinking military equipment. More along the lines of a cork-gasketed Farmall engine or similar. Mind, we used to do a lot of dumb things to farm equipment to "make it run today, right now, get the hay up before the dew hits it again..."
 
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