Manufacturing processes, Deep draw metal stamping

 Hard to believe that the process can start with a simple hunk of metal and after a number of forming steps, 14 punch steps here, a long narrow shell casing is produced. This process would have made WW1 artillery viable.

Monday Mystery, another airplane part?

 This looks like an air intake of sorts, about 3 feet wide and maybe 42 inches tall. Ideas? Best thing is there's more than one!

F. W. Reed

I swear lathe manufacturers around the turn of the last century were like software companies of this turn of the century, everybody's doing it! 

   In 1875 Fredrick (Wikipedia says Francis) E. Reed bought an interest in A. F. Prentice & Co., a manufacturer of lathes and machinist tools. He soon bought the entire company and operated it under his own name. The company enjoyed a period of rapid expansion, and F. E. Reed became one of the biggest machinists' lathe makers in the world. In April 1912, the Prentice Company (apparently still operating independently) and the F.E. Reed Company merged, and became the Reed-Prentice Company.

 In 1915 the company was sold to new interests and F.E. Reed passed away in 1917. 

Catalog here. History at Vintagemachinery.org

Sidecar Sunday

Thanks, Andre!

Ok guys, stop fooling around. 

 

Another job you may not want to do, boring deep holes with twist drill, 1902

 Modern Shop Practice Vol 1, American Technical Society, 1903

 

Betty Boop technical drawings

 Drawing guide for the artists who drew the cartoon.

Apperson 100 HP Runabout

Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice, American Technical Society, 1907

 

Gouldcar

I found the above classified ad in a 1943 Motorcyclist magazine, it's a product of the Goulding sidecar company.  Of course Jesse at Just a Car Guy found this years ago and told the story. Link here.

 

We used to make things in this country #377 Lincoln Toys power shovel

This beat up stamped excavator toy was seen at a local antique store, the Lincoln name was not familiar but it turns out Lincoln Toys was a Canadian company in business during the 1940s and 1950s, Along with construction and farm toys there were also several lines of trucks in different styles and scales. I will add them to the post as I find them.

 Kay Manufacturing started up in Windsor at the corner of Erie and Lincoln St. in 1941, receiving a contract to produce ammunition boxes and fenders for the Canadian Army. The company name changed to Windsor Steel the next year and their product line expanded into other stamped metal products. After the war with government contracts gone, they started a line of hardware products, bicycle accessories and pressed steel toys, becoming a supplier of Massey Harris farm toys. They opened a salesroom on Lincoln St, naming it Lincoln Specialties. 

Meanwhile near by, another metal stamping company named Ellwood Industries also started producing their own line of stamped toys. This line was successful, being sold through Canadian department stores Eaton's and Simpson's. Ellwood Industries moved down the road to a factory in Tilbury where they also produced stamped parts for the Ford Motor Company. Arrangements were made to market the toys through Lincoln Specialties. 

Both companies were successful through the 1950s but competition from Tonka and other stamped metal toys put them out of business by 1958. 

More history at The Canadian Toy Collector Society site.

 Canadian Museum of Civilization collection here.

 

With tools he is all

Wisdom from the inside cover of The Starrett Story, 1982 edition...