Photo Index - Vocational Industries Corp. (VICO) - Floor model

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Vocational Industries Corp. (VICO)
Salem, OR

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Metal Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Drill Press
Machine Size:	18”
Submitted By:	Reuben Deumling

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Floor model
Date of Manufacturer:	1940s, est.
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Last Updated	5/16/2020 7:34:51 PM

Comments:

VICO machines are exceedingly rare. A small number of VICO lathes have shown up - in the Midwest of all places - and just recently three different drill presses made by this obscure and undoubtedly short-lived company have surfaced in Salem itself. This one was offered for sale in late 2017. But not knowing at the time that Vico made drill presses I did not recognize it as such or pursue it, and this one appears to lack the cast script on the head casting that the bright green one I posted here shows. The head casting would seem to be a shameless copy of Boice Crane Model 2600 drill press introduced in 1939 that featured a stepped head casting. The only two pictures I have are the seller’s.
I suggest 18” because back in 2011 when we were discussing Vico lathes I found a mention of an 18” floor model Vico drill press in the digital archives of The Oregonian from 1948 and 1950.
The round table is unusual for this period. Much older drill presses made in the US had round tables, as did later Asian imports.

Photo 1:

Comments: front view showing three step pulleys
Source: seller’s photo

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Photo 2:

Comments: left side
Source: seller’s photo

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Photo 3:

Comments: borrowed photo to show similarity to the Boice Crane model
Source: http://www.vintagemachinery.org/photoindex/detail.aspx?id=34597

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