Photo Index - Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. - Canadian Westinghouse 25 cycle split-phase

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
East Pittsburgh, PA

True Manufacturer:
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh, PA

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Steam and Gas Engines
Machine Type:	Motor
Machine Size:	1/3 HP
Submitted By:	Jeff Joslin

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Canadian Westinghouse 25 cycle split-phase
Date of Manufacturer:	1944?
Serial Number:	448139
Last Updated	6/28/2012 7:37:14 PM

Comments:

This 1/3 HP motor came with my Buffalo 15" Production Drill Press. The data plate on the motor was newer than the motor: it had been added when the motor was "Converted to 60 Cycles by Wagner Electric". But converted from what? I knew that Southern Ontario once had 25 cycle power coming from Niagara Falls, and that Ontario Hydro ran a program in the late 1940s and early 1950s to convert everything over to 60 cycle power. They ran a trade-in program for things like fans and radios, plus they paid for industrial motors to be rewired. I expected a 1/3 HP 25 cycle motor to be bigger that this motor so I was not sure.

The mystery was solved when I took the pictures for this Photo Index entry: the original data plate is still there on the bottom of the motor! And through the layers of paint the "CYCLES 25" is still visible. The motor serial number is 448139. Does that imply that it was manufactured in 1944? That seems consistent with everything I know about both the drill press and the motor.

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Comments: A TEFC motor would be more appropriate for drill press use, but the motor still appears to be original to this factory-purchased drill press.
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Photo 2:

Comments: Side view showing post-conversion data plate and brass inventory tag.
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Comments: Photo taken by holding the camera under the motor, pointed straight up. Hang on, that's the original data plate!
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Comments: Closeup of the original data plate.
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Comments: Closeup of the new data plate.
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