Identify These Pliers

[Onoff]

Going through my Dad's tools and I came across a couple of pairs of these pliers. I always wondered what they were as a kid. He worked for British Gas for many years so something related maybe?

Best I could find Googling was "trim clip pliers". Can't quite make the numbers out:

 

[dan.taylor.1]

They look like they're for pulling say a small hose off an injector or something. I wanted to say spark plug/HT lead pliers but sod doing that without some kind of insulation on the handles!!

 

[premmington]

Gas pipe pliers (angled gas pipe pliers)....?

 

[GRW]

"Identify these pliers"

His name is Wilkinson

 

[awemawson]

Yes gas pipe pliers. I have an identical pair.

 

[Agroshield]

Very similar shape here, also identified as gas pipe pliers:

Vintage 6.5" Angled Gas Pliers Stamped GLCC English Made VGC (CC) | eBay

All teeth in very good condition. Stamped GLCC. MAde in England. Highly polished and tactile to use.

www.ebay.co.uk

See also:

Gripping Tales: Wilkinsons Tools, Warrington, Lancashire, England

progress-is-fine.blogspot.com

Wilkinsons Tools - Graces Guide

www.gracesguide.co.uk

 

[Onoff]

Cheers. Found them on eBay listed as below. Still not sure what you would grip with them?

7" Angled Gas Pliers​

 

[Agroshield]

Still not sure what you would grip with them?

Remember when each room had its own open gas fire, normally a replacement for the open coal or wood fire that preceeded it? The connections to that were 1/8" or 1/4" BSP and there would be a 90 degree brass fitting poking out of the floor. I suspect they would be used in that area. All the old houses are plumbed in screwed iron pipe.

Today, when you have a 22mm copper supply to the boiler and a 15mm supply to the cooker, it is difficult to see their use.

 

[GRW]

I got deleted for "off topic drivel"

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On topic... Pliers. Very useful things

 

[Erie Fred]

I got deleted for "off topic drivel"

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On topic... Pliers. Very useful things

Same here....I feel so much better now...