The Dark Story of Turner Tools: How Stanley Destroyed Australia's Greatest Screwdriver Empire

The Dark Story of Turner Tools: How Stanley Destroyed Australia's Greatest Screwdriver Empire Eleven hundred workers at Nunawading by nineteen sixty-six. Turner wasn't a screwdriver brand. It was the tradesman's default, the ruby-red handle in every apprentice's kit. Every Australian shed. But on the thirtieth of November, nineteen seventy, Stanley Works CEO Donald Walter Davis Jr. bought Turner through the Stanley-Titan joint venture. The Turner brand was gone in two years. Nunawading closed in ninety-two. Stanley Australian tool manufacture ceased by two thousand and two. Today, four hundred Whitehorse Road is a Harvey Norman. Fluorescent lighting. Widescreen televisions. Meanwhile, sixties-era red-handled Turner screwdrivers are still in Australian sheds. The Chinese replacement doesn't feel the same in the hand. This is the story of a Connecticut corporation extinguishing two Australian tool empires by patience. This is not just the story of Nunawading. It's the story of three staged decades to close a factory. #TurnerTools #NunawadingFactory #AbandonedFactories #LostFactories #IndustrialDecline #AustralianManufacturing