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South Bend Lathe Works
South Bend, IN

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Metal Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Lathe, Metal
Machine Size:	11in swing, 5 foot bed
Submitted By:	Gary Brown

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	South Bend 11in lathe
Date of Manufacturer:	1934
Serial Number:	53371
Last Updated	3/27/2012 12:26:29 AM

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The lathe is in great shape and even tho I was not looking for another lathe, and especially a smaller lathe, it was just way to cute to not go after it.
In my attempt to research to see what the heck I drug home I have not been able to find much on the 11 in SB lathes.
What I do know, or pretty sure I know is my lathe is a 1934, ser 53371, cat number 184B, 11 in swing with 5 foot bed.
Can anyone lead me some where that would have more info on the 11s

Some info I found

By the late 1930s South Bend had two 9-inch lathes in production: the lighter 9-inch "Workshop" model introduced in 1934 as the Model 504 and the very much heavier Type R, a lathe also built as an 11-inch model in several versions and whose origins went back to the early 1920s. During 1939, in order to put some distance between the two 9-inch models, the "R" was revised becoming what is believed to have been the Model T (with a 9-inch swing) and then (looking almost identical) as the 10-inch swing "Heavy Ten", a machine that, due to its compactness and useful features, was to prove enormously popular and remain in production (though in a modified form) until the late 1990s

The guy I bought the lathe from also sold me a bunch of other stuff. The stuff that I bought belonged to the owners brother that died in a accident about a year ago. He could not give me any history on any of the tools.

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