A interesting bit of history ...

middle.road said:
OMG! the sleeves! quick someone get her to roll up her sleeves!
Fortunately she has her hair up and completely secured.

That's a beautiful machine, I'd wouldn't mind seeing one in person... I may have over the years and had no idea.
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They are a beautiful machine and quite sensitive and accurate; they are a toolroom machine, meant for tool and die work, one think you can't see is that the ram is inclinable for such as die work, and the rotary table has power feed for circular shaping, the rotary table also has a shot bolt dividing capability, and on mine, I have added dividing plates and sector like a dividing head.
If you ever come to California, you can come and look at mine!
 
1979, I remember the first two days in a large heavy Machine Shop. I came on board as a Tool Design Draftsman Draftsperson.
Wore dress pants, button down shirt and a TIE! The tie didn't last two hours and my boss held up a pair of scissors and told me to 'lose it' or else... (kind of like that steak house in the DFW area.)
Bill was the Superintendent of the Tool Room and Plant Maintenance.
On the second day he turned me over to the floor. He'd arranged it that I'd spend one or two hours with each of the machinists on the main floor.
And this is how I will always remember what a 36"x120" American lathe is.
I was standing on the platform with Chris and he was turning a big ass shaft, chips the size of a toe nail flying all over, and there I am,
without a shop coat, shirt with two buttons undone (as was the custom in the late 70's) and two of those chips hit and dropped down
my shirt. That was an experience I'll never forget and every one of the guys on the floor laughed their collective asses off. Hurt like the devil.
I went back up the stairs to the mezzanine where our office and tool room were and their is Carl at the top of the stairs holding a shop coat for me with my name Sharpie'd over the pocket...
Bless those guys! I really wish I had paid better attention and took it all that was available.
 
FanMan said:
Posed photo? No chips anywhere on the machine...
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Definitely, no other people around either, might be a publicity photo for a fashion designer during wartime. I can almost hear Glenn Miller playing Sunrise Serenade in the background. But that sure looks like a solid machine. Hooray for our side!
 
Guess it's called a gear slotter, you see them in action on YouTube videos. Many of the old war movies show these hopping up an down. I have lots of hours wasted so I watch the old machine porn movies. The British sten gun factory is a favorite.
 
That whole series of pictures show women doing certain jobs, nice and clean, yeah, right. There's a picture of woman at the controls of a brand new Warner Swasey turret lathe. Not a chip anywhere! Definitely staged.
 
John, I'm almost willing to call it a 6" P & W vertical shaper, too. I've been around both over the year, never run one, don't want to either.:big grin:
 
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