Pedrick & Ayer manufactured Metalworking Machinery

We have received from Messrs. Pedrick & Ayer a handsome illustrated catalogue of their special tools for railway repair shops. The list of tools illustrated and described includes a heavy universal milling machine, No. 1 universal milling machine, vertical or angular attachment for milling machines, Cosgrove's patent universal vise check, universal index head, chuck for squaring up brass boxes, link milling machines, two sizes of cylinder boring and facing machines, universal grinding machine, apparatus for heating, setting, and removing tires, patent portable valve seat rotary planing machine, patent portable valve chuck, patent portable improved locomotive cylinder boring machine, patent portable improved crank-pin machine, Greenwood's universal planer chuck, patent portable steam-chest seat milling machine, patent portable wrist-pin machine, Otto's patent flue-cleaning machine, planer tool for locomotive driving-boxes and curved surfaces, jointer for facing locomotive brasses, Park's patent link-grinding machine, radius link planer attachment, Rieppel's patent portable drilling machine, portable cylinder boring machine, boring bar for lathe, cylinder head facing attachment, Hodgson's cylinder planing chuck, Hodgson's eccentric mandrel for turning locomotive eccentrics, Otto's patent car-box boring attachment, patent adjustable shrinkage gauge, Baughman's patent boiler tube cutter, car wheel circumference measure, patent portable key-seating machine, portable bench vise, portable hand-drill, belt-clamp, Suckar's patent extension jack, the "Gyp" engine.

Information Sources

• Railway World 18 Aug 1888 page 772
• American Planer, Shaper and Slotter Builders: 1830-1910 by Kenneth L. Cope, 2002 page 131