Nice looking lathes. I have serial number 1031. Logan started making Montgomery Ward lathes in 1940, didn't put the Logan name on until 1941. MW production began at number 1001 so mine is the 30th one off the line. (Someone else has the 20th one made.)
They made two models of the MW, Standard and Deluxe. Standard has babbitt bearings and no power cross feed. Deluxe has roller bearings and power cross feed. Number 1031 is a Standard Model. Serial number has a P after it, I assume for Plain Bearing. Supposedly the only letter used after the serial numbers on MW lathes was A, added when they started over at number 1000A after 9999 was reached.
So far my lathe seems to be the only known example of a plain bearing Montgomery Ward lathe. I assume many of them succumbed to abuse by lack of oiling the bearings and were scrapped or got the headstocks swapped for roller bearing ones - but any of those should have the P after the number if that was the practice. Dunno since mine is such an early one, possibly the very first plain bearing one made? Can't know unless another Standard model turns up with a P after the serial number.
I color laser printed some POWR-KRAFT logos on adhesive plastic film.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27748767@N08/sets/72157635938510255/ MW used two different color schemes so I made some of each and used the blue one on my lathe instead of the red one because I like it better.
If you want one, send me a PM.
I have a 1941 Deluxe Model, serial 2669 (2668th one made). Owned at some point by the Consolidated Vacuum Corporation, a company that had NASA among its clients. Never know but this lathe may have turned some parts used in early manned rockets.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27748767@N08/sets/72157639469853874/
