Earliest Sun Diagnosis cabinet
Here are some images of the earliest style of the unique Sun Scientific wall cabinet that we have found. 1948
Barrett Brake Service Workstations
Barrette Brake-Dokter System consisted of carts, and there were also two different style workbenches to hold lathes and other precision service equipment.
There is small manufacturing ties to some of the Barrett equipment and that of Borroughs
United Motors Benches and Cabinets
United Motors made a few styles of workbenches over the years. Here are a couple and a bonus.
This beautiful stacked shelf cabinet consists of very hard to find sections. Thank you to a viewer of our site for sending this one over!
Auto-Lite Battery Display Racks
These distinctive Battery Display shelves built to show off Auto-Lite products were seen with individual manufactures names on them as well, ie. Packard like below.
The waterfall back design makes these an appealing addition to any garage.
American Brakeblok Workbenches
Brake components offered up with a work top bench and side cabinet storage. I have only seen four of these mid 40’s workbenches. They measure in at 4’ wide x 34” tall x 21” deep and have nice machine age rounded legs and trim.
As a Bonus; Here is a stylish Raybestos Brake Service bench as well.
AIR-BOY Lubrication Equipment
Produced in the 50’s out of San Fransisco, Air-Boy built these Oil Dispensing cabinets for dealerships. Most had four filling spouts, but we have seen one with six. Later models were smaller, lost the hyphen in the name and were manufactured in Denver, Co. There have been rumors of other AIR-BOY cabinets models, but we have yet to find any workbench configurations over the past decade.
Esso Map Cabinet
The Esso “Happy Motoring Travel Center”
Was a vertical cabinet offered to Esso Stations to display maps and help travellers.
Here is another travel desk made by Standard Oil:
Packard Workbench Display for Certified Re-Wiring Service
The 1940 Packard Wiring Equipment bench came with storage for spooled cable, battery and ignition cable as well as a soldering iron, voltmeter and bulb socket voltage adapter.
Sun Equipment Backgrounds
From 1948 into the ealry 50’s, the Sun Electric Corp. produced 5 different styles of Diagnosis cabinets. Built to house their varying testing equipment.
As touted in their ads;
”Modern as tomorrow, is the new eye-appealing Sun Utility Background that attracts customers to your new Diagnosis Department.”
I really enjoy that they were producing a large wall cabinet, with thought put into rolling your testers back in and out of these. Bumpers lined the lower alcoves, and the service desk area always had a catchy advertisement or wording.
3 Rare Cabinets Surface this Week
This week was a phenomenal one, as we got to see three scare units go up for sale, and gather some more history and images.
First up is this 1950/51 ARO Wall Cabinet
Next is a more intact example of this Unknown manufacturer, Alemite style doors, Oil Display Shelf Bench. This one still has history to give us, more to come…
Lastly is an extremely rare Borroughs Cabinet set. This is only the second Borroughs we have seen in the wild.
Aluminum Alemite Cabinets?
Yes, that is right! For a short amount of time, most likely in ‘46, Alemite built their side cabinets as well as back tool board area out of aluminum.
We are unsure why or if it was supply they had on hand. But this is yet another in a long line of oddities we have seen on the different makers work stations.
1945 Lincoln Large Emblem Workstations
When first introduced in ‘45 Lincoln’s new style Merchandiser posesed a large, concave back, emblem in the top center of the unit. In 1946, after the Series C’s, it was gone and the smaller emblem we all know took its place.
You can really see the size difference in this pic
