Silly's MB wrote:Are you thinking their is a lot of CV around in 1943 ?
No. Just curious.
It's interesting to see that they were still using the same slogans ("The finest that money can buy") and layouts as the 1939 catalog, including all the figures and text that still had "Chrome-Vanadium" on it. But others did the same thing. Williams did not revamp its literature until 1947. Instead they stuck WPB notices inside warning customers that due to alloy restrictions certain tools had been discontinued etc.
In fact, my respect for AA just went way up. They have this catalog in their resource table. But now that we can see it as well (thanks again, Steve!), it's good to know that AA took a rigorous comprehensive approach in their analysis, considering everything in context, to include what they knew (still a little too generally for my liking) about alloy restrictions. Of course, the fact that Bonney used a date code system gave them confidence to stick by their guns. Despite the catalog deceptively indicating otherwise,
no Bonney CV tools with a 1943 date code have been found as far as I know. And very few with a 1942 date code, and most of those had plain finishes, suggesting they used the last of stock steel, or the possibility that an old die was used.
I said this with the other catalogs (Cornwell, etc). Caution is needed. Company literature and company production during the wartime era are not necessarily the same thing.