SIMMONS MICRO-SPEED lathe with variator, 1930s - 1940s ?- searching for informations

[mecanicus]

Hello to all,

a friend had inherited from his grandfather a huge american lathe named SIMMONS MICRO-SPEED,
centre height about 20", length between centres estimated 5 or 6 feet, maybe more.

As soon as I can, I will post some photographs and more exact specifications.

Is here anybody, who has informations about SIMMONS lathes and knows, where the factory is/was resident?

Thank you
Max

 

[benmychree]

Once upon a time, I saw a largish lathe at a machinery dealer in Berkley Ca. It was a Simmons/Nebel, and was something that looked like a gear head lathe, bur with holes in the casing and driven by a Reeves pulley setup, most of the normal gearing was not present, perhaps just one geared speed change. The Nebel lathes that I have Seen are a pretty crude POS.

 

[Jim F]

Simmons Lathe

They are still around, based in Albany,NY.

Railway Wheel Set Maintenance, Production

Manufacturer of railway wheel set maintenance and production equipment; contact us for locomotive wheel truing, wheel shop and heavy payload automation, and OEM parts + service for Simmons, Stanray, Hegenscheidt, Niles + Farrel machine tools.

smtgroup.com

Looks like they specialize in big stuff.

 

[middle.road]

And over at Tony's site...

Simmons Lathe

 

[LF_WS]

There's some information at: Vintage Machinery, Simmons Machine Tool Corp.