Am Montag, 16. Januar 2017 20:33:05 UTC+1 schrieb Leon Fisk:
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...

Interesting. The prices of vices in the Frasse catalogue correspond roughly to what I'd expect to pay today (when you take inflation into account). Thanks for the links!