Snap-On Tools is a tool manufacture and distributor, they service Professional shops, to sell there tool line. They are geared toward the Professional and distribute there tools off a truck that makes stops at service center's once or twice a week. They invented the removable socket, hence the name Snap-On. Before this invention the socket was a one piece speed wrench, so you had to have one for every size (5/16", 7/16", 1/2" etc.) So now you had a speed wrench with removable sockets that Snapped on and off. This saved considerable space and weight in the tool box.
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| - Snap-On Tools is a tool manufacture and distributor, they service Professional shops, to sell there tool line. They are geared toward the Professional and distribute there tools off a truck that makes stops at service center's once or twice a week. They invented the removable socket, hence the name Snap-On. Before this invention the socket was a one piece speed wrench, so you had to have one for every size (5/16", 7/16", 1/2" etc.) So now you had a speed wrench with removable sockets that Snapped on and off. This saved considerable space and weight in the tool box.
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| - Snap-On Tools is a tool manufacture and distributor, they service Professional shops, to sell there tool line. They are geared toward the Professional and distribute there tools off a truck that makes stops at service center's once or twice a week. They invented the removable socket, hence the name Snap-On. Before this invention the socket was a one piece speed wrench, so you had to have one for every size (5/16", 7/16", 1/2" etc.) So now you had a speed wrench with removable sockets that Snapped on and off. This saved considerable space and weight in the tool box. "Johnson and Seideman created a set of 10 sockets that would “snap on” to five different handles. The idea that “Five Do the Work of Fifty” revolutionised the industry and in 1920, the Snap-on Wrench Company was born." This was a promo through them, distributed off there trucks.
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