I picked up this vintage vice which looks like it was made in the early 1900’s for £40 off of Facebook Marketplace and have decided to restore and use it.
Its a big lump and a search on the internet shows that it used to be red once upon a time. I’m going to strip it down and clean it, paint it up and then rebuild it.
It seems in really good order, no remarkable damage and it actually still works fine, just looks a bit rough.
Here’s some vintage marketing material about the vice, I notice how they refer to it as a “vise” which is the American term, even though Parkinsons is an English company.
There is very little information about Parkinsons online but from what I could find out, they are the original design vice which Record copied the patent for after it expired.
I’ll update this page with my progress as I get a chance to work on it. It’s currently tipping it down with rain and if I work on it in the shed with the door shut it gets a bit nasty in there.