Does Anyone Know.......

There is such a diverse group here, education and culture wise, that I hoped someone would recognize it.

I have never heard of "Hirth" Engines, so I have no clue what to what kind of engine this badge was attached to.

Sorry

Looks like dog tags.

Uhhh yes, but it says "Tool-badge 489" on it......... strange name for a dog

Heehee, "here tool-badge 489!" "here, boy!" heehee

I do know that my grandmother was a riveter during WWII, this was in her stuff. Hirth started building plane engines in the 20's but I really doubt she was helping build German planes back then!

Maybe she got it from a plane that was shot-down and she kept it as a souvenir?

What is a "riveter"?

It's a Manufacturer's tag for a gear

What is a "riveter"?

People that put planes together by riveting them together.

http://www.aati.com.au/hirth-engines.htm

google search

could it be then that parts from german planes were reused?

Ooh. I would hate to think that, it would mean only one way of getting the parts to reuse!!!

Good link teddybearcholla, that means the tag dates to pre-war! I would still like to know what the number is, maybe it could tell me what part it came from. Time to research!

MGiff to me they look like tags that go with large type split pins. These pins are ed into various parts of engines to stop those parts from moving during transportation or storage.
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(These pins are ed) i cannot get INSERTED into the above sentence?
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Or in post 14???? >

Ande, that really makes sense! I guess we were using German engine parts in WWII?

Don't think so MGiff, but they could have come from engines shipped to the USA prior to WW2 for whatever reason.

Now the secret of how the USA supplied the germans with there weapons is out. You really screwed up history on this one Mgiff.

For starters....Dornier flying boats were used by the allies in WW2...

Flying boats??????????? When I did my term paper on WWII I must not have been too interested in that aspect!

Haha, NightTrain, let's see what happens next!

Just a thought. In many places of industry, tools are supplied to employees through a central tool room or warehouse. I have worked in places that are like that. They assign a number to a tool and when you check it out for use, you get a tag with the tool to identify that you are the one that checked the tool out and to prove that a tool is yours if you find someone else with it. When you return the tool, you give the tool and tag back. So perhaps it was the id tag for a rivet gun of some sort.

Hmm. But German???

Got me there... Maybe a German rivet gun?????????? From Germany????????? or from a German from Germany??????????

Why not German?  They were a highly industrialized country pre WW2 with a lot of heavy industry...eg Krupps Engineering, etc.

OK, so these days the typical tool comes from Asia...but not back then...

#7 by yrag - 6/12/2004 5:45:39 PM It's a Manufacturer's tag for a gear

...OK...let's try this one more time.............