How to determine Manufacture date of Delta 1460 lathe

Might find out something here.

http://wiki.vintagemachinery.org/DeltaSerialNumbers.ashx

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Rockwell acquired Delta in 1945 … prior to that, the badges and plates on Delta machinery identified the manufacturer as Delta or Delta/Milwaukee.

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Thank you for your responses.
Alaskaguy, judging from the information in your link, the manufacture year of this lathe looks to be 1946.

Here are some pictures of my lathe and the serial number plate.

According to the vintagemachinery wiki serial number list, that lathe was built in 1946 (S/N#’s 40-6601 thru 49-5000). Not sure if you still can, but you used to be able to e-mail the Delta support staff and they could narrow down the model number, month and year of manufacture for you.

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Brad

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