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Cincinnati No.3 Universal MIll

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Can anyone help with information on this mill I found in a railroad museum in Sweden?

It is a cone drive machine with two ratios of backgear and has the serial no. 3716 G on the column. It is in remarkable condition with all original handles, some arbors and a vertical head. It has the earlier screwed spindle nose. The latest patent date on the door is Oct 1900 and a small brass plate has the details -

"SCHUCHARDT & SCHUTTE BERLIN
Wien Stockholm St. Petersburgh Copenhagen Budapest London New York Shanghai"

All the brass plates on the machine are in German including the large one that gives the speeds with and without backgear.

Would the machine have been made in the USA with these plates or would S & S of Berlin have replaced then before sale ?
 
The company certainly would have been capable of rendering the plates in German. The company was started by Fred Holz who immigrated from Germany and George Mueller whose father immigrated from Germany. One of the early partners, joining the company in 1887, was Frederick Geier whose father immigrated from Bavaria as a child in the early 1850's. I gather Cincinnati had a considerable German population in those days. The centennial history of the company published in 1984 (by then it had become Cincinnati Milacron) shows an ad from 1900 that lists Schuchardt & Schutte as one of their European agents. The caption states that The Cincinnati Milling Machine Company (as it was then named) had been doing business in Europe for a decade as of 1900.
 








 
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