Help ID some trinkets from my last visit to the Surplus store

[rob love]

I recently made another trip to my favorite surplus store and came home with a real mixed bag of items, some of which I can't ID. So I am hoping for some insight from others on the forum.

First two items are the curved type machete and the little adjustable "Indian" wrenches shown in the photo below. The machete has "LSR on the blade, which would indicate it's use was prior to 1949 when the Lake Superior Ragiment added "Scottish" to their name. Does anyone know what period these blades were used in and what their purpose was? What is the correct name for them?

The second items are the little adjustable wrenches. They have the term "Indian" on the handles, and a part number of 1F122868. Are these wrenches part of the EIS of the Indian motorcycles?

Lots more items in the batch, but I'll start with these two.

[chris vickery]

I think you lucked out there my friend...
I think the one item was called a matchette, cross between a hatchet and a machete.
Those do appear to be genuine Indian items. Wow.
Any goodies for me???

[rob love]

Sorry Chris, nothing for you this time, but I am keeping my eyes open.

I googled matchette and none of the images look like this one. For some reason I think I saw a photo of a similar knife included in one of the 25 pdr manuals....I'll have to check at work tomorrow.

Just remembered, there is some marking on the blade: ArtBrockvilleCanada. Does that mean anything to anyone?

edited to add:Looked at a blowup of the photo and it is Smart Brockville Canada. Found some info on them here: http://yesteryearstools.com/Yesterye...fg.%20Co..html

[rob love]

Looks like the knife is called a billhook. Here is a page on them including the same maker as shown on mine: http://billhooks.co.uk/photos-and-ot...y-billhooks-1/

OK, with that out of the way, does anyone have the manuals for the Canadian Indian motorcycle and could possibly confirm if these wrenches were EIS for those bikes.

[barriefield-brian]

I have one of these hook-bill machetes. I bought mine from surplus when I was a kid and used it to chop firewood when camping. Lost the handle years ago but it is in a leather sheath stamped J.E. Lortie Montreal 1942. The metal is marked in raised letters CF8F 1942 and also has a G inside a diamond. No C broad arrow so always wondered if they were military or not. Always wondered what they were used for as well. Cheers Brian

[rob love]

On the site for the Smart mfg Company, it shows where the G in the diamond was also used by Smart....maintained after the acquisition of the Gardiner tool Co of Montreal.

CF&F rings a bell, as I know I have seen it somewhere else. Found it, and it does have a connection with Smart: http://yesteryearstools.com/Yesterye...0Forgings.html

No C/l\ on mine either. Of the half dozen of these that I saw in the surplus store, more than half were missing their handles.

[Wayne Hingley]

Try this for the Indian wrench Rob... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Indi...wAAOSwHMJYHjB5

Below is a clipping from TM-10-1287 (October 18, 1941). Indian Motorcycle Model 741-B