1940 Popular Science
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bclong7@...
I was looking at the Google archive of Popular Science Magazine today, and in the September, 1940 issue I found an article titled "The Home Workshop". And on the first page of the article is a man happily un-crating his brand new South Bend Lathe! I happened to notice a 5 digit number (either 97443 or 97993) handwritten on the side of the crate. Sure enough, according to Steve Wells' database, that is a valid serial number for a new 1940 lathe. One wonders if that is a self portrait - and if it indeed shows a real shipping crate for a 1940 lathe....
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That shows a lucky guy, don’t think too many people back in the 1940’s would be able to afford a new lathe for their home workshop.
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Steve Haskell
On Oct 20, 2019, at 6:05 PM, bclong7@... wrote:
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Great picture . And look how clean the guy is, wow.
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On Oct 20, 2019, at 3:05 PM, bclong7@... wrote:
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EC
I saw a similar advertisement in Popular Mechanics for a Southbend lathe starting at $115 and up in the 1940s.
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Let’s say that a fully loaded 9 would be around double that price ($230), in today’s dollars that would be $4,027.50. Not terrible but probably outside the realm of the home hobbyists at the time as the Great Depression (1930-1939) was just ending.
On Oct 20, 2019, at 6:05 PM, bclong7@... wrote:
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George Burton
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EC
Looks like interest free financing. I wonder if they still do that!
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Cool piece of memorabilia.
On Oct 20, 2019, at 10:30 PM, George Burton via Groups.Io <geobur657@...> wrote:
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glenn brooks <brooks.glenn@...>
Wow, price went down! And no interest financing. He got a great deal.
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On Oct 21, 2019, at 6:04 AM, EC <webicons@...> wrote:
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