This article is about Standard Tool & Manufacturing founded in the early 20th century; another company named Standard Tool & Mfg was founded in 1994.

Standard Tool & Manufacturing was a Swedish-American Tool company and main supplier of electronics to R.C.A. based in Kearny, New Jersey

Kearny, New Jersey

Kearny is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. It was named after Civil War general Philip Kearny. As of the United States 2010 Census, the town population was 40,684. The town is a suburb of the nearby city of Newark....

, USA.

History

The company was founded in the early 20th century by Swedish emigrant Johannes Strandberg. In 1926 Mr Bernard "Bearny" J. Keating took over as chairman. In 1955 Standard Tools was cited by the Radio Corporation of America for "many outstanding contributions to R.C.A. and the electronics industry over the past twenty-five years". Mr Keating was named the outstanding Roman Catholic layman of the year by St. John's University, Brooklyn and received its St. Vincent de Paul Medal.