WOW…. You are looking for allot. Even the key for every manufacture would take a long time if anyone had them all. I have some (a few hundred OEM logo keys from only 6 lock makers and I KNOW I don’t have them all being I only collect keyways made between 1900-1980 of lock makers that made Unit locks. That is so I can make keys to the locks I collect with the right logo keys from the time it was made.
I am sorry to say even the professionals don’t have everything. Take the safe bolt layouts we have some of the common (there are enough that almost every tech will see one at least once every few years.) has taken decades to create books and even then it will never be done.
Now there is some books out there that cover some of the info on the lock manufacture of America over the last 150-200 years. I don’t know of anyone that would cover more than just a country or continent. There are just too many over the last 100 years to know more than the larger ones or the one in your own country. Example I knew of Lockwood here but didn’t know that it was a company also in AUS till 10-12 years ago.
As for documents/ catalogs there are collectors of those but you and I getting access is another matter I am sorry to say. I know of what LARGE collection in NYC but access for me would be a challenge. I would LOVE to trade catalog scans I have for any US lock makers catalog scans just for my archive. I have several old Yale, Corbin, Russwin and Sargent catalogs from the 1930s-1960s that I have been scanning. A few I got from Corbin Russwin when I visited the factory for my service book. I got to raid their document archive in the basement and found more catalogs than I could carry away. I have been looking for a scanner to make it faster.
