A collection of all the main Workbench manufactures catalog front/ad pages. Recently, I found this Lincoln Engineering pamphlet from 1947, of all places for sale on Etsy.
Almost all of the companies referred to their work station cabinet units as Service Merchandisers, outside of Alemite and Balcrank.
Here is a Shure one sided cabinet bench. The end cap is something new to us.
A Graco wall surround with just cabinets.
These Visualiner cabinets have been reworked into stand-alone smaller cabinets.
Finally, here is a Work Station that never actually existed. The Artist for this ARO ad was probably worried about showing a Alemite Bench in the final print, so they modified its trim and window placement.
This photo of a unique styled Visualiner is from 1954 inside a GM dealership in New Zealand. A brand new Holden sits on the rack. This cabinet was most likely fabricated by another compnay than John Bean for this country. I love the styling of the top Visualiner sign.
The company states that these beautiful Visualiner cabinets were released to market in 1947, however we found this ad below from their role out in August, 1946.
Fun fact: There were two different color emblems for the John Bean alignment units over the years. We do not yet have a concrete answer on what years possessed which versions, but know that the red one was produced first.
Above is yet another strange styled cabinet. This one built in the Netherlands…
We have been acquiring Chilton's “Motor Age” magazines for our history collection, and these are the Merchandiser related ads or images found within. These are mostly from 1949-1950.
