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SOUTH bend LATHE f l'A!taiog 5600, Copyright 1955 b y the SOUTH bend L"the Works. All rights reserved. I 9 0 6 1956 50th Anniversary It was in the fall of 1906 that twin brothers John J. and Miles W. O'Brien set up shop in a small building at SOUTH bend , Indiana and began to design and build precision machine tools. Although bringing with them a rich heritage of Yankee ingenuity, their products were a success only after years of hard, painstaking effort and financial hardship. Both brothers had served toolmaker apprenticeships in some of the finest of the old New England shops. Later they supplemented their practical training with engineering courses at Purdue Univer-sity and gained wide business experience with several well established machine tool manufacturers and distributors. Recognizing the advantage of specialization, one of the first and most important decisions of the O'Brien brothers was to restrict their products to precision machine tools.

efficient production machinery. Measuring instru­ ments and tools are constantly checked to maintain uniform accuracy. Hundreds of special machines, jigs" fixtures, and gauges are used to assure inter­ changeability of parts. This simplifies assembly, lowers the cost of manufacture, and insures pre­ cision.

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