This isn’t the typical collection of tools you’d gather for the garage at home.

With the help of numerous vendors, Kipper Tool Co. in Gainesville has packaged and delivered more than 1,000 "standard automotive tool sets" for the Army.

The company at 2375 Murphy Blvd. celebrated that milestone Tuesday with a ceremony featuring speakers and a gathering of dignitaries and officials from the military and business community, including vendors that have contributed to the work.

A catered outdoors affair was held afterward.

The contract has created jobs for Kipper and other area companies since it began in May 2004, said Danny Sears, vice president for Kipper.

"We feel like we’ve helped Hall County because of the business we’ve put back into this county," Sears said. "Economically, it’s been really good for us and the area."

The kit is housed in a trailer that can go wherever soldiers need to take it. It houses all the typical tools needed to work on a vehicle, such as wrenches and stands, and is equipped with a generator, heater and air conditioner.

"This will fit in a C-130 (plane), so they can transport it fairly quickly around the world, where they need it to go," said Lt. Col. Brian R. Tachias, product manager based out of Rock Island, Ill.

Kipper buys the 1,890 tools and systems that go into the trailer, which was built in North Carolina, said Harry E. Lewis, Kipper’s vice president for programs and special projects.

"We put the tools in it, get them the way they’re supposed to be, package it up and deliver it to the Army," he said.

The plan is to build 4,842 of the tool sets, Tachias said.

The feedback so far from soldiers is that "they love it," he said. "They want it and the ones that don’t have it want theirs. That’s why we’ve got to build them as quickly as we can and get it out to them."

Producing the tool sets is not a simple operation, company officials said.

"This is done by a lot of people. We’re good to have good people," Sears said. "... It’s a ton of moving parts and it takes everybody pulling together to turn 70 of these a month."