Photo Index - Greenfield Tap & Die Corp. - four step flat belt, attached countershaft

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Greenfield Tap & Die Corp.
Greenfield, MA

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Lathe, Wood
Machine Size:	approx 13 by 36
Submitted By:	Robert Bernstein

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	four step flat belt, attached countershaft
Date of Manufacturer:	circa 1920
Serial Number:	possibly C4-10432
Last Updated	9/4/2009 7:56:27 PM

Comments:

This machine was in an antique Charlton, Massachusetts house that had been taken back by the local bank. A bank official--who has submitted photographs here in the past--offered this in trade for a donation to a local charity.

Easy to load, not terribly heavy, this appears to--and may well be--a good user machine. Interesting design features include the attached countershaft--which adds some good bgottom end weight--the idler/ tensioner/guide system for the headstock drive, and the sliding dovetail tailstock. As received the lathe has a four jaw chuck and a shop made turning rest.

GT & D made this lathe for a small number of years only. It had come to there business, it is thought, from the aquisition of the FE Wells Company, that had designed it originally. Some examples of this style lathe are marked 'Wells,' this one is thought to be only 'Greenfield Tap & Die Corporation.'

My route in driving this machine back to my home took me through Greenfield, Massachusetts, so I stopped there--where the lathe was made (and a favorite town of mine for visiting)--and had a hamburger. I knew people who worked at GT & D.

The bed is stamped C4-10432 on the headtsock end, possibly the serial number.

Photo 1:

Comments: overall, front
Source: R Bernstein

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Photo 2:

Comments: overall, quarterm back
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Comments: headstock area
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Comments: tailstock
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Comments: idler/guide system
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Comments: overall, from above
Source: R. Bernstein

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