A group of visitors from Japan watch as Joe Perry, a stamper operator at Snap-on Tools' Milwaukee plant, feeds sockets into a stamping machine. The visitors, part of a delegation nearly 200 Japanese Snap-On Tools dealers, managers and industrial sales representatives, toured the plant Monday to acquaint themselves with how the Kenosha-based company designs and manufactures its products. In an unrelated development Monday, the firm made a tender offer, valued at about $100 million, to purchase Sun Electric Corp., an Illinois-based producer of vehicle diagnostic equipment.
Photo measures 10 x 7.75 inches. Photo is dated 09-01-1992.
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