On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:02:15 GMT, "Leo Lichtman"
wrote:

||
||Ken Sterling wrote: Don't know about now, but back in the old days G, the
||dogtags were made on a typewriter type of machine where the tag was placed
||in a
|| holder, and as each letter was "typed" the character was stamped into the
||metal (I ran one of these for a few days in boot camp only because I was
||able to type).
||^^^^^^^^^^^^^
||I'll carry you back even further than that! Prior to WWII, the
||Addressograph company had a machine that stamped out metal plates that were
||used for addressing mail. During the "BIG" war, this company made a fortune
||selling the same machine to the government for making dog tags. Those
||machines are probably all scrapped by now, except for a few that may be in
||museums, but, if by chance you could find one, you would be able to make the
||tags as fast as you can type--provided you could also find the blanks.

We haveone of those stored in the back of this uilding.
It's probably for sale, probably pretty cheap.
Last I looked it had some blank plates with it.
Fort Worth TX

Texas Parts Guy