Vintage work crew photos

[Frank S]

Like https://catalog.archives.gov/search?...naIdSort%20asc "Metal shop at the Submarine Base Los Angeles"
Alternate caption "How many steady rests do you need?"
Oh, I dunno, how long is the lathe bed?
Lol
Shaft lathes for sure; I'm betting Axelson or Monarch, greatest of all.

When it comes to long large but completely modularly reconfigurable lathes one cannot leave out the RG Letourneau tournamatic lathes .
At one time MR RG had some 150 of his lathes turning out 155 mm shells some 90,000 of them all totaled but the crowning glory of his lathes was his concrete bed lathe made from repurposed ways and Rail road tracks turned into ways,scavenged from his many WWII lathes to turn out shafts for gas turbine generators probably done for the Westinghouse corp.
Not a lot of people know a whole lot of the RG Letourneau corp. outside of his rather large and often times 1 off earth moving equipment or the famous Snow trains
His factory was one of the original rapid reconfigurable manufacturing systems