I'm not trying to be impolite, but I read many of the posts (not all)
about this issue recently, but I never got "the answer". I was born
and raised in Rockford Illinois, once the "machine tool capital of the
world", so I'd be interested in the current answer to the question.
BTW almost all the big names are gone from there now. Ingersoll
Milling Machine has recently re-opened with foreign (Italian, I think)
ownership. There's still stuff going on around there, but not like it
used to be.
Who DOES make the big transfer lines now?

Pete Stanaitis