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interesting to see the Fabrex box - has 'Made in Sheffield' - as Fabrex was a Leicester (city about 75m S of Sheffield) company making tools for the cloth industry (Fabrics) and some home-use tools - including two clamp-ons like this and a couple of much scarcer vises - I guess they out-sourced...

very similar by Millers Falls USA and Marples UK about 1950s? - usually red and black paint

I'll try later -- strangely, I'd already resized to under 1M jpeg. and sent the same file elsewhere OK, but gj just didn't want that page - (just woodworking and English prices so no great loss) old man J Parkinson used 'vice', but when the sons came into the business J Parkinson and Sons used...

yup -- I guess they made some, but I doubt many -- I've never seen or heard of the 12in outside this listing -- Blair, who made the first version were big into supplying castings and finished parts for heavy armament, mining and ship-building works so I would guess that would be the market. I...

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but surely, vise/vice is spelled/spelt vice back to Paramo (Parramore and Sons (1924) Ltd of Chapeltown) - toolmaker who got into vise-making about 1940 --- as with several other English vise-makers the main designs were very much based on those of J Parkinson of Shipley -eg your No6 is v like...

if you talk kindly to member Dutchgray (or grey, UK spelling) - he may have access to these catalogs (or catalogues, UK spelling) ps the Record 74 was the home version, the 75 was the heavy duty pro-shop version

there's an English cross between the Orange vise and Wilton bullet (or York or Bugatti) due to be launched soon, including large sizes I'll stick with my favorite 100+ yr old cast iron, but interesting - some pictures out there on the web but lost it as I don't have a maker name - it might be...

I am in UK, so not baby/toddler Wilton-land but the exact equivalent is York and Spencer-Franklin Hydraclamp -- the easy solution to the top-plate was an inexpensive aluminium faceplate from a very amateur wood-lathe.

interesting, never heard that history before - as a teen, my first vise was a Fabrex clamp-on - had to be tough with me trying to use it as a major bench vise - but not good for the kitchen table. Leicester was quite a centre for making leather and fiber cloth/material machinery post WWII and...

I have a collection of small, plain English bench vises (many makes) but not seen this one - distinctive diamond shape on the front of dynamic may have had a decal? The color, if original, is like that used by Fabrex of Leicester, who made two common clamp-on vises and a rare woodwork quick...

interesting vise --- what was its original market and how intended to be used - in another vise like this (would work) or??

With the European equivalents (York vise and Spencer Franklin hydraclamp) I have the same issues - found an easy solution to be a small adaptation to round faceplate in steel or alu for lightweight woodturning lathe (available for a few $$)

good catalog - thanks - yes, different shape also cast-in "Record Sheffield", the earlier (?) "Record Made in Sheffield" - could be they were already outsourcing some of the manufacture (up to at least 1990 every part was made locally). Story was that at some point they shipped casting patterns...

This is a late, (1990s?) but Sheffield-made Record after they'd been taken over by Bahco, then Irwin but before they stopped making in Sheffield - don't know why their marketing dept added the meaningless '1 ton' - maybe can exert 1 tpsi of jaw? - anyhow - should be good quality

It's a Nippy (drill/machine vise) - not scarce in UK but much liked, so price for a good one is $$. Stackable set of jaw plates to suit job. Murray & Sons London, 'The Nippy' - sold at least until '60s/'70s - one size is 3.75in wide jaws- there may be others.

most UK bench vice/vise makers (several of them) used standard jaw widths, but sometimes variations in naming -- the 00 (sometimes called 0A) was usually 2.25ins, - the 0 size was 2.5ins. In fact there was a much earlier Woden 00 with narrower jaws (1.75in) - a much smaller and cruder vise --...

yup, much the same - but then Record Auto-Vice's screw was like some much older vises. In fact I swapped out my Record 74 A-V for this one - have a thing about rarity, and does the job I need just as well.

that's what I thought when buying it a while back, has the look, but P Wright's big thing (until v late years) was wrought iron and this is all cast (except screw, nut and jaws).

sorry - not the 35 - but this looks related in my eyes - but has 'earlier-type' 2 part static did Chas Parker make any earlier vises that were not marked? my vise here seems to be unmarked (as you see, altho I had it many years, not yet cleaned) - 40lbs, 3.5 in jaws (replaceable), works well...