great - same date +/- as my wheels which I put together from scrapped bits in ~1978 - Sun Worksop 5 speed Campag, Brooks, sidepulls -still goes well when tuned up - trouble is Sheffield is bit hilly for my old legs so I go round the lake w my grandson
the screw and nut inside will almost certainly be steel (light alloys too soft) -- I never heard of a magnetic Al alloy although some have a little Fe or Co (nor Zn or Mg, the other two common cast 'light alloys', anyone know for sure?)
I'd guess cast using parts of the steel vice as patterns, maybe by someone on alu foundry night shift (hope they got the steel one back together ready for the morning crew)
seen this before with small vices, also in brass, but not as cleanly done as yours
sometimes they just cast a broken part...
agree - good quality
York have been around a long while - one of their people went to New York in the 1930s and set up Wilton vices USA with a range of vices looking and working much like this - still available new (v expensive) and some of the used esp small and v big sell for high $$ - for...
firstly, the 689821 No I gave was wrong ( a different Handy) - apologies - they did register a vice like yours, with anvil but a two casting static, about 1900, but the later vices like yours are slightly different and may not be Parky - anyone know for sure?
Marples, like Ward and Payne, were...
V Interesting pair of vices --- the swivel Phoenix 8/0 shares some looks with Chinese vices of the better quality, but also German/Swiss types
The Thos Ellin does look like some Marples, but I think Marples probably always bought in their vices or at least shared design. The Parkinson Handy...
I made a collection of the 00 (some 0) sizes (2.25 and 2.5 in wide jaws) of standard UK bench vices and I have to say the Paramo Hi-Duty 00 is probably by a whisker the best made. (For some reason, maybe because they go back farther than the others, Parkinson Handy 00 is my fave)
photo wld be nice, but also see cwazywabbit's dropbox Parky catalogue
Parkinson had at least 3 swivel variants, ea quite diff - early 'off-centre' vlarge disc on disc, the conic as here and a later one more like other makers - the first 2 not common
I expect you may have seen this type, Rosi. - commercially made (Yorkshire?) - interesting to me is that various versions I have seen of this type all have the big bolt thro' the static jaw as if it should be mounted on the corner of a bench and removable.
oak body, brass nut steel screw nd faces
Idly looking at a retail catalogue from about 1960 - vice prices for a big 'un in shillings -- looking also at Ranger's 111 and Lambco's Mk 1 (suggests Mks 2,3 ---?)
all in shillings (!) - (Record 111 257/-) ; 113 (8in) 370/-; 25 (8in) 270/-; no6 (8in) 190/-; 518 1/2 (8.5in) 1800/- (no typo...
agree prob a repaint but in something like the original colour
I've seen on old Parkys that the original red colour is a thick coat, that acquires a black surface over time and is thick and crumbly over time whereas the original green or grey (and dark grey/black for the Cocker bros version)...
pre1900 Parkinsons' Handy (not the 'improved' version ???
however, one story is that they got fed up w copies - so cld be a copy?
ps, just noted the jaws bolted from behind --- original?