auscab
20th January 2015, 08:02 PM
We have Two A.A.Tyson Bandsaws here . Both have been covered with timber covering
so no pictures in the raw . The wheels are 20" cast Aluminium the rest cast iron .
My one takes blades at 3570 long the height that my one cuts is 240mm and from its
cast base to the top of the top wheel its 1770mm high. There are a two more of these
saws pictured in threads on this forum which I have seen and Ive seen roughly three others
sell on ebay over the past few years.The one I bought I did up with a paint job and new rubber
to the wheels .
My one has a few fancy wood offcuts stuck to it.
For the last 35 years when ever we talk of the saw with my Dad he mentions
" AA Tyson, He was a relation of Mine " and for 35 years I have just replied " Yeah ? "
though about it for 5 seconds, and left it at that.
I rang him the other day and got a bit more information on A.A Tyson .
I was told he was an Uncle of Dad's and he remembered him coming around to visit in what
must have been the 1940s to 1950s
He had a daughter who is married and they are still alive , I was given the daughters number
and rang them .
I was told
A.A .Tyson is Albert Arthur Tyson and he was an engineer who at some time sold Oil and taught
engineering at Melbourne Tech .
They told me he was a chubby guy who joked a lot and was funny , and said he certainly made
friends easy .
He made Bandsaws at ( See Picture) 933 High st Armadale Melbourne Victoria Australia, and
worked with one other guy . The castings were done at another firm and were ordered in .
His son in law told me that he mainly made Butchers saws and he didn't know of woodworking
saws being made ??
This got me wondering if our woodworking ones are the basis for a 1940s or 1950s butcher saw ?
I did notice some of the steel covered saws seemed very neat in the way they were covered. but
they weren't great pictures.
I have seen one AA Tyson Butchers bandsaw on a Greys online add which looks nothing like the AATBS we have .
I was also told he took out some sort of patent for butchers saws . And that the
Butchers association may be able to help me .
Im thinking he must have done the woodworking Bandsaws as a side line because by
the sounds of it he did a lot of butchers machines. Unless there was two AA Tyson
Bandsaw makers in Melbourne after the war which I doubt ?
Then I was told that there is a picture of Albert Tyson standing next to one of his
bandsaws, I got exited, GOLD !!
I am waiting for the picture to be found. I would guess it's going to be of him standing
next to a butchers saw but you never know. I will post it when I get it.
Rob
so no pictures in the raw . The wheels are 20" cast Aluminium the rest cast iron .
My one takes blades at 3570 long the height that my one cuts is 240mm and from its
cast base to the top of the top wheel its 1770mm high. There are a two more of these
saws pictured in threads on this forum which I have seen and Ive seen roughly three others
sell on ebay over the past few years.The one I bought I did up with a paint job and new rubber
to the wheels .
My one has a few fancy wood offcuts stuck to it.
For the last 35 years when ever we talk of the saw with my Dad he mentions
" AA Tyson, He was a relation of Mine " and for 35 years I have just replied " Yeah ? "
though about it for 5 seconds, and left it at that.
I rang him the other day and got a bit more information on A.A Tyson .
I was told he was an Uncle of Dad's and he remembered him coming around to visit in what
must have been the 1940s to 1950s
He had a daughter who is married and they are still alive , I was given the daughters number
and rang them .
I was told
A.A .Tyson is Albert Arthur Tyson and he was an engineer who at some time sold Oil and taught
engineering at Melbourne Tech .
They told me he was a chubby guy who joked a lot and was funny , and said he certainly made
friends easy .
He made Bandsaws at ( See Picture) 933 High st Armadale Melbourne Victoria Australia, and
worked with one other guy . The castings were done at another firm and were ordered in .
His son in law told me that he mainly made Butchers saws and he didn't know of woodworking
saws being made ??
This got me wondering if our woodworking ones are the basis for a 1940s or 1950s butcher saw ?
I did notice some of the steel covered saws seemed very neat in the way they were covered. but
they weren't great pictures.
I have seen one AA Tyson Butchers bandsaw on a Greys online add which looks nothing like the AATBS we have .
I was also told he took out some sort of patent for butchers saws . And that the
Butchers association may be able to help me .
Im thinking he must have done the woodworking Bandsaws as a side line because by
the sounds of it he did a lot of butchers machines. Unless there was two AA Tyson
Bandsaw makers in Melbourne after the war which I doubt ?
Then I was told that there is a picture of Albert Tyson standing next to one of his
bandsaws, I got exited, GOLD !!
I am waiting for the picture to be found. I would guess it's going to be of him standing
next to a butchers saw but you never know. I will post it when I get it.
Rob