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- Joined
- Jul 23, 2021
- Location
- Philadelphia
Historic Machine Shop Built for Marine Engines
Hello All,
My intentions are to start a thread here and add to it when I get additional information or make updates based on community feedback. I am a history buff, so this interests me and I want to make sure I am accurate with descriptions and so on. I am working through my late uncle's estate and in the late 1990s he purchased a property from someone he knew well (machinist/shop owner). This is a late 1800s through the mid 1900s machine shop and was used to make marine engines right off of the Delaware River south of Philadelphia. I spent much of my teenage years at this shop alongside my uncle working, not with these machines, but around the shop and his stuff. He was sort of a collector (nice way to put it), appreciated history and never said no to free. He knew what he had with these machines and unfortunately never got a chance to restore it to working order.
The shop still houses many of the line shaft driven machines and accessories that come with the equipment even though the building is aging fast. For me and my uncle's legacy it's about trying to preserve these machines and their parts and to sell them to the right person before we get around to selling the property and cannot control what will happen.
I will make a list of the machines I can identify and I have an old picture that I'll include of the shop in it's glory. I believe these machines to be anywhere from 100-150 years old, unfortunately the diesel motor that ran the shop is no longer there, but the ceiling apparatus is. All of the stuff that I can see moves very freely and surprisingly well lubricated
Equipment for sale
Hello All,
My intentions are to start a thread here and add to it when I get additional information or make updates based on community feedback. I am a history buff, so this interests me and I want to make sure I am accurate with descriptions and so on. I am working through my late uncle's estate and in the late 1990s he purchased a property from someone he knew well (machinist/shop owner). This is a late 1800s through the mid 1900s machine shop and was used to make marine engines right off of the Delaware River south of Philadelphia. I spent much of my teenage years at this shop alongside my uncle working, not with these machines, but around the shop and his stuff. He was sort of a collector (nice way to put it), appreciated history and never said no to free. He knew what he had with these machines and unfortunately never got a chance to restore it to working order.
The shop still houses many of the line shaft driven machines and accessories that come with the equipment even though the building is aging fast. For me and my uncle's legacy it's about trying to preserve these machines and their parts and to sell them to the right person before we get around to selling the property and cannot control what will happen.
I will make a list of the machines I can identify and I have an old picture that I'll include of the shop in it's glory. I believe these machines to be anywhere from 100-150 years old, unfortunately the diesel motor that ran the shop is no longer there, but the ceiling apparatus is. All of the stuff that I can see moves very freely and surprisingly well lubricated
Equipment for sale
- 84" WR Davis Metal Lathe
- 65" David W Pond Metal Lathe
- Canedy-Otto Press (?)
- Superior Drill Press, says Kokomo In. on vertical arm
- Misc. Machine???
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