Maybe so - I left RI August '63 and by then the new digs in North Kingston were well on their way - escaping finally from the century old plus filth of the sprawling Providence plant
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I just now did go and look it up. About ten years later than this mill went out of the catalog in '67.
Beginning of the end was when both sides got at cross-purposes, 1977, neither ever flinched an inch in a damn-fool war to the death:
Beginning of the end of Browne and Sharpe | WJAR
Extract:
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Brown and Sharpe shut down its North Providence Greystone plant on Nov. 16, 1982, in the midst of a machinists' union strike that began about five years earlier.
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The "terminal" five years were not even the whole saga. Elsewhere it has been written up as one of the longest, stupidest, and most destructive industrial actions, ever, with a seventeen year run, and a major influencer on MOST New England manufacturers folding up or moving out of the reach of inflexible "seniority or death" Unions.
Meanwhile, as with plants I have seen down-sized, then soon after shut-down, and then liquidated, not even MOVED, same reason, "hands on", (IBEW) ..the CUSTOMERS had gone elsewhere.
Of course they would!
Brown & Sharpe - Wikipedia
More to the point of machines as "new" as this one, in thread?
Wiki history sez B&S was ALREADY getting
out of the general-purpose milling-machine bizness - or PLANNING and trying to do - in favour of "automatics", and from the 1950's, as much as ten years before this one appeared?
"Be that as it may.." an era had sort of been sidelined as much out of indifference as of conflict.. as B&S had moved-on. Back to their roots in metrology, mostly.
"Bean Counter grade" history here. If anyone still cares. I knew they SOLD Tesa goods. I had not been aware B&S OWNED Tesa, nor Leitz of Wetzlar, and a few other well-known-name "surprises":
History of Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. – FundingUniverse
Back to the future:
This - mini-HBM'ish? - mill might have been one of the last-ever new'ish B&S designs as far as "mostly conventional" mills go?
Interesting if it gets a new home and is put back to making chips,, "right here, on PM".