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Thomas,
Up until sometime between 1947 and 1957, the model number was on the nameplate, the nameplate was on the rear of the bed, and the Serial Number was stamped into the top of the front way near the right end, in the strip where neither the carriage nor the tailstock run. At some point in that time frame, the nameplates moved from rear to right end of the bed. Also within that period, the serial number moved from stamped on the way to stamped on the nameplate. We don't currently know whether the serial number moved at the same time as the nameplate or later. So short answer is that if you bed still has its nameplate and the serial number isn't on the nameplate, then it should be on the way.
Jim,
OK. Not long after I posted the question, I saw that you had put the serial number in your first post. Sorry that I forgot it.
On dating your machine, we are hampered by the fact that Atlas production records, which almost certainly existed at one time, do not appear to have survived. Atlas, on the succession of 10" models (except for the first two or three years of QC model production) seems to have started with Serial Number 000001 in 1935 and run consecutively up to something over 088786 in 1951 (strangely, we have no records of 10" with either higher serial numbers or later dates, but that's another subject). So with some margin or error, you could ID the original 10" model number from the serial number. But on the 12" built for Sears, we have enough examples to conclude that each of the three model lines (101.0736x, 101.0738x and 101.0740x) started at 1 and ran up. So with several caveats or assumptions, your machine was probably made in early 1942.
Up until sometime between 1947 and 1957, the model number was on the nameplate, the nameplate was on the rear of the bed, and the Serial Number was stamped into the top of the front way near the right end, in the strip where neither the carriage nor the tailstock run. At some point in that time frame, the nameplates moved from rear to right end of the bed. Also within that period, the serial number moved from stamped on the way to stamped on the nameplate. We don't currently know whether the serial number moved at the same time as the nameplate or later. So short answer is that if you bed still has its nameplate and the serial number isn't on the nameplate, then it should be on the way.
Jim,
OK. Not long after I posted the question, I saw that you had put the serial number in your first post. Sorry that I forgot it.
On dating your machine, we are hampered by the fact that Atlas production records, which almost certainly existed at one time, do not appear to have survived. Atlas, on the succession of 10" models (except for the first two or three years of QC model production) seems to have started with Serial Number 000001 in 1935 and run consecutively up to something over 088786 in 1951 (strangely, we have no records of 10" with either higher serial numbers or later dates, but that's another subject). So with some margin or error, you could ID the original 10" model number from the serial number. But on the 12" built for Sears, we have enough examples to conclude that each of the three model lines (101.0736x, 101.0738x and 101.0740x) started at 1 and ran up. So with several caveats or assumptions, your machine was probably made in early 1942.
