"J.F.P." stamped right below the serial number on my 9A bed, what might it mean?

Domodude17 · Jun 24, 2020

"J.F.P." stamped right below the serial number on my 9A bed, what might it mean?

I have a 9A, serial number 117337 (1941 vintage). Right below the serial number its stamped J.F.P. I looked on wswells.com but the letters I have stamped don't seem to match up with any of the standard lettering.

texasgeartrain · Jun 24, 2020

There has been a number of discussions on whether they are someone's initials, or an acronym:

letters stamped on bed

Lathe bed stamped with initials

rgsheehan · Jun 24, 2020

Domodude17 said:
I have a 9A, serial number 117337 (1941 vintage). Right below the serial number its stamped J.F.P. I looked on wswells.com but the letters I have stamped don't seem to match up with any of the standard lettering.

Hi,
My '41 9C has "LOR" stamped on it. I don't know what it means.
R. G. Sheehan

CWC(4) · Jun 24, 2020

My 1946 9A has "J.A.N." stamping

johnoder · Jun 24, 2020

J.A.N = Joint Army Navy

Indiscriminate initials - indifferently applied - likely a final inspector

Like for Post #1 - we can guess what might have been - John Foster Pressley

CWC(4) · Jun 25, 2020

johnoder said:
J.A.N = Joint Army Navy

Yes, thanks. Saw that reference some time ago somewhere in another thread.
Were these "initial" stampings gone by the 1950's or so?
I also have a later 10L (late '60's) and 10K (early '70's) and neither have any initials stamped on the bed.
CWC(4)

johnoder · Jun 25, 2020

Sounds as if you answered you own question.

Interesting subject - unlikely to have such questions answered in detail I would think.

In a general sense, I would guess there would be more PHYSICAL EVIDENCE of inspection or other markings during the WW2 days since the USA government was buying large batches of machine tools

CWC(4) said:
johnoder said:

J.A.N = Joint Army Navy

Yes, thanks. Saw that reference some time ago somewhere in another thread.
Were these "initial" stampings gone by the 1950's or so?
I also have a later 10L (late '60's) and 10K (early '70's) and neither have any initials stamped on the bed.
CWC(4)

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