That proposal seems less realistic, now that know that the walls were down and most the
machines were place October 1913. shaper, surface grinder, and power hacksaw
that were moved from the heavy machine shop the first floor during the
1920s 1930s, should returned their 1914 locations downstairs.
Four machines, installed well after the interpretative period, should removed in
order establish the historic scene. these, the first emphasis should placed securing
replacements for the engine lathes and milling machine; part because they offer
the best prospects for success, but more importantly because they will fill out and
complete the furnishings the north side the shop.
The later bench should dismantled and removed.
These lathes should put back into place the north bench; their original
locations are easily traced through bolt holes and scars the bench and wall.will camouflage modifications the shop that occurred after the period of
significance without removal any structural fabric.
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. They included two engine
lathes, two drill presses, milling machine, table saw, small rolling mill, and
an engraving machine. The squaring shear, filing
machine, punch press, power hacksaw, one the drill presses and LeBlond
engine lathe should moved back their 1914 positions.660
Several machines should returned their 1914 locations. This offered the advantage of
allowing ignore all the messy things that happened that side the room that still don’t
understand.
s“ NB, once seriously entertained the thought proposing reconstruction the partition that
enclosed the entire row experimental rooms the south side the shop.
Eleven machines, recorded 1914 photographs and the 1920 appraisal,
disappeared the time the next inventory 1939. large Lindgren drill press, installed in
1942, should placed storage. Four precision bench
lathes were removed from the bench along the north (courtyard) wall, along with
their countershafts and foot-treadle controls, sometime between 1920 and 1939.
These include racks collections items such diamond disks, trade catalogs, and
drawings, miscellaneous semi-historical debris from Building the photocopier,
and audio-visual equipment.
They were set free-standing bench the southeastern comer the shop.
As the pattern shop, the first impediment implementing this plan will be
finding another home for National Park Service materials stored the shop
