An adjustable spanner, also called a shifting spanner or shifter or adjustable wrench, is any of various styles of spanner with a movable jaw, allowing it to be used with different sizes of fastener h
From the bottom: The first BAHCO-improvement adjustable wrench from 1892 (Enköping Mekaniska Verkstad) Adjustable wrench from 1910 with an improved handle (BAHCO) Adjustable wrench from 1915 with a slightly rounder handle (BAHCO) Adjustable wrench from 1954 with improved handle and new jaw angle of 15 degrees (BAHCO) Adjustable wrench from 1984 and the first with ERGO handle (BAHCO) Today's version of the adjustable wrench from 1992 with ERGO (BAHCO)