monarch war effort

[Speedy]

in my other hobby I can across this.
enjoy
dialup beware!

http://www.monarchrange.com/History/WWIIEffort.pdf

 

[rake60]

Great reading material Michael! Thm:

I even recognize a few of those machines.
My first machining related job was in a production shop in the late 1970's.
The machines were mostly WWII surplus from the mid 1940's.

Now in 2012 I'm working in a place where I'm setting up production machines that
were made in the late 1970's.

30 years sounds like a long time until............

Rick

 

[Kaleb]

Those are some big beefy welders they used back then, not to mention that huge press.

 

[b.lindsey]

Couldn't help but notice in at least half of those pictures, operators wearing gloves even around rotating machinery. The only place i even allow gloves in the school shop is in the welding booths. Even so those old pictures are fun to look at. Its amazing to think back to the war effort and the years after and imagine just how much was built and ALL the machien tools required to support what was probably the peak manugacturing years in the US.