Bruce Johnson
Stainless
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2006
- Location
- Burbank, CA USA
I recently picked up a September 1909 issue of Machinery on ebay, and by pure luck, there's a quick two page article in it announcing the new Heavy Duty series lathes from the R. K. LeBlond company. It describes the new features, including the heavy angled front way. So, now we know when the line was started.
From reading these old Machinery issues of that era, I get the impression that LeBlond was just another small struggling machine tool company at that time. They didn't do much advertising, and there are very few articles about them.
Here's the article. The issue is very fragile, so I couldn't get a real good scan, but it's readable:
http://www.xstrange.com/Machinery/LeBlond HD Article 1.jpg
http://www.xstrange.com/Machinery/LeBlond HD Article 2.jpg
From reading these old Machinery issues of that era, I get the impression that LeBlond was just another small struggling machine tool company at that time. They didn't do much advertising, and there are very few articles about them.
Here's the article. The issue is very fragile, so I couldn't get a real good scan, but it's readable:
http://www.xstrange.com/Machinery/LeBlond HD Article 1.jpg
http://www.xstrange.com/Machinery/LeBlond HD Article 2.jpg