Elam Works
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 8, 2007
- Location
- Pennsylvania, USA
Hello all,
A bit of a tough one. I have a picture of a machine tool (left, foreground)
that I am trying to figure out what process is being done. It was taken in the Gibson tractor factory, Longmont, CO, circa 1948. When I first saw a lower resolution image of this picture, I thought it might be the end of something like a Barber-Coleman gear hobber. Evidence was being sought that they had in-house gear cutting capability. But now I have a better view and I see what I though might be a gear case cover has a gap in it. In the gap I see what looks like a table or bed. Most odd, it seems to be sitting on a stack of boxes that seem modular, though the top one has some t-slots. At the other end on second base is a headstock? On top of which appears to be an electric motor. Beyond the motor may be a second 'case' like on the near end. Unfortunately there are no workpieces laying around the machine to give a hint as to what was being machined, and therefore what this machine tool might have been. They did have production machines in the factory like double sided millers, so this may not even be a 'conventional;' machine I am just failing to recognize.
Anyone recognize it from this end view?
-Doug
A bit of a tough one. I have a picture of a machine tool (left, foreground)
that I am trying to figure out what process is being done. It was taken in the Gibson tractor factory, Longmont, CO, circa 1948. When I first saw a lower resolution image of this picture, I thought it might be the end of something like a Barber-Coleman gear hobber. Evidence was being sought that they had in-house gear cutting capability. But now I have a better view and I see what I though might be a gear case cover has a gap in it. In the gap I see what looks like a table or bed. Most odd, it seems to be sitting on a stack of boxes that seem modular, though the top one has some t-slots. At the other end on second base is a headstock? On top of which appears to be an electric motor. Beyond the motor may be a second 'case' like on the near end. Unfortunately there are no workpieces laying around the machine to give a hint as to what was being machined, and therefore what this machine tool might have been. They did have production machines in the factory like double sided millers, so this may not even be a 'conventional;' machine I am just failing to recognize.
Anyone recognize it from this end view?
-Doug