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.
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.
We had never seen one of these unique cabinets in person before, so we decided to bring it on back with us.
The Diagnosis Cabinet was built around 1948-1951 and allowed the mechanic to tuck away their Sun Test equipment. It came with a writing desk in the center and a top illuminated glass display. We love the curved cast metal end caps. Below is the original catalog ad from 1950.
Below you can see what the original Sun signage would have looked like.
This is not a small unit. Measuring in at 13 feet wide, 17 inches deep, and 7 and a half feet tall. Here is cabinet as found in its original mechanics garage.
