On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:09:35 -0800 (PST)
Christopher Tidy wrote:

You remember any of the names of the best machine tool brands from that era?

You can find a lot of old catalogs on archive.com Like:

https://archive.org/details/generalcatalogof00toleuoft

https://archive.org/details/illustratedcatal00sell

https://archive.org/details/cataloguepriceli00frasrich

there are a lot more if you want to search...

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
Remove no.spam for email