New Work Station found; The 1946 AMPCO Bench

The ad is from November 1946 and I found it in an issue of Automotive Digest magazine.

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This Mechanic’s Unit with a 1/4” thick plate bench top, seems to have only been offered from late 1946 through early 1947. The Parts bin was more successful and had a multi-year run with the Keith Motor Co. Below is the founder of the Amarillo Metal Products Co. S.L. Shepard.

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It appears that the company began producing hotel and cafe equipment in early 1945. By 1947 they were centering more on air conditioning and heating. Newspaper articles show us that the company was done and their metal fabrication tools were sold off at auction in 1953.