 Travers offers high speed steel cutting tools, solid carbide cutting tools, carbide indexable cutting tools, blades, abrasives, deburring tools, files, machinery, machine tools, machine tool accessories, measuring tools, inspection instruments, hand tools, power tools, pneumatic tools, welding equipment, fasteners, tooling components, stock materials, Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) products, safety products and equipment, material handling equipment and reference books and software.Travers Tool Co., Inc. was started in 1924 by David Trevas.An aspiring young entrepreneur, David borrowed $1000 and asked a New York tool distributor to let him place a telephone on one of the empty desks at the office.