tool box hole

Hello all,
     I've been busy for the last 8-9 months restoring the 1949 WD that my father purchased new. The other day my attention focused on the new replacement tool box waiting to be installed and the hole in the front of the box. Does anyone know the purpose of this hole? I grew up on WD / WD-45's and never could see a use for the hole in the front of the tool box. Unless it's an access for mice?

I thought it was for the wheel wrench to stick out

my bar for the wheel wrench used to stick out there till I lost it

Mine's had the gas gauge stick pokin' out of that hole for years!! LOL  Never gets lost!

good place to let waspers in

Dad always kept a giant crescent wrench in the tool box--so big that about 2-3" stuck out through that hole.  That tractor was parked in the barn at another farm and Dad and I were there for something.  A big ground hog was in the barn right on the corner of the new (not yet painted) barn doors.  They were pretty foxy, even fixed up with a flush hinged service door.  Dad says, "Quick, hand me that crescent wrench!"  Flings it at the ground hog, misses and shatters the bottom corner of the door.  The ground hog saunters off, I wanted to laugh in the worst way, but thought the wrench would get thrown at me!  That barn is now gone; some other people run that place.  Sorry for the thread hi-jack, but can't look at the tool box and not remember that story.  R. Musgrave

it was for the grease gun hose to stick out, but they soon quit that cuz the dirt gathered on the end of the gun and not any wiped the dirt off before using it and that caused bearing/bushing failure sooner than was sposed to! then dirt/dust was also getting inside as was other things mentioned above! wasps being the worst!

no, that's where the corn cob goes.

SteveM C/IL wrote: my bar for the wheel wrench used to stick out there till I lost it

I think Steve is right.

Grease Gun. An old dealer in Plano TX ask me one time if I knew what it was. I got it right according to him.

Air hole for the 13 striped ground squirrels caught while plowing. 

on WD/WD45 the grease gun lays on foot clutch linkage with pump end twd rear."Head" catches on clutch pedal arm

The hole is to allow mice to get into the box and pee all over your tools. Bob