Monday, January 11, 2010

Hart-Parr Catalog; The First Installment

As promised, here is your first installment of the Hart-Parr catalog that I photographed recently. Click on each page to enlarge for reading or saving. More next week.
















2 comments:

  1. Wow. I wonder how much maintenance those old machines tool. The drive belt looks like a weak point.

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  2. They required lots of oil and grease. Nothing was enclosed, but the folks who ran them were used to steam engines which also required lots of attention. The drive gears wore thin on engines that covered lots of miles, and if you worked in sandy soils you had to keep the gears dry because oil and grit made an efficient abrasive compound.

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