South Bend Lathe Works, South Bend, Indiana, 1944, 43^rd Edition.  Soft cover, 128 pages including Index.  Very good; wraps have light edge and cover wear, crease a lower front corner; sound binding.  Interior clean and unmarked; black & white illustrations and photos; very occasional small age spot.  ‘The screw cutting engine lathe is the oldest and most important of machine tools and from it all other machine tools have been developed.  It was the lathe that made possible the building of the steamboat, the locomotive, the electric motor, the automobile and all kinds of machinery used in industry.  Without the lathe our great industrial progress of the last century would have been impossible.’ (from p. 3)