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Thomas Fruin Machine Co.
New York, NY, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Metal Working Machinery

History

Last Modified: Mar 24 2012 4:16PM by Jeff_Joslin
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This firm made a metal spinning lathe.

Information Sources

A metal spinning lathe, with this maker's name cast into the base, was for sale in the owwm.org buy-and-sell forum.
The Smithsonian online library lists a 1931 lathe catalog from this firm.
Mentioned as a maker of metal spinning lathes and tools in Turning and Boring Practice by Fred Herbert Colvin and Frank Arthur Stanley, 1948, Available in Snippet View in Google Books.

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