A basic range of block and bench planes survived but their numbers were cut shorter every few years. Stanley UK continued to manufacture some planes but to all intent and purpose the Stanley plane manufacturing business was dead by the late 1980s.
When did Stanley make planes in England?
Stanley Tools UK bought JA Chapman in Sheffield and started making planes in 1937.
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