Andy,
The Atlas, Craftsman and AA database is actually kept in two locations (three if you count the master on my machine here at home). One location is in the Sticky area at the top of the Atlas/Craftsman/etc. Forum. But I have been known to forget to update that one. The other is in the Atlas/Craftsman area in Downloads (which requires Donor status to see, but you are OK for that). I update it sporadically
However, the only places that have an actual date engraved on them are the Timken spindle bearing cups and cones. Atlas built there first lathe, a 9". circa the latter part of 1931. And shortly after built a version that Sears sold under the Master Craftsman name. The 1932 date comes from the fact that the first Sears Power Tools catalog to have the 9" in it is dated 1932, The first several Atlas catalogs that we have are numbered but not dated up through about 1939. Atlas didn't initially build the lathes with anything but Babbit bearings which are always undated. Atlas began to offer the 10" around 1935 and the first 12" appeared in the 1936 Sears Power Tools catalog, but only with babbit bearings.. The following year the 101.07400 also appeared with Timken bearings. The earliest reported engraved bearing date is in a 10D S/N 002107 dated 1936/01/28.
Anyway, your machine was probably made in 1953. If you can report the model number off of the nameplate on the right end of the bed or if the nameplate is missing, the LOA of the front way (not the distance between centers), I will add it to the database. If you need to pull the spindle anyway, please report whether or not there is any date on the bearings. But there probably isn't as either Atlas or Timken quit engraving the dates on the spindle bearing cups and cones we think in 1951 or 1952.