Thread: Unidentified bandsaw

The forum has been a little quiet of late so I thought that I'd put some pictures up to elicit a bit more activity.
Here's my 24" bandsaw of unknown provenance.
My guess is that it was made after the second world war although potentially it could have been made between the wars.
The frame is fully fabricated from 3/8" plate which would have taken some bending prior to being welded into a pretty stiff squarish C shape.
The wheels are also fabricated, with six 3/4" diameter steel spokes welded to each central hub and rim. You can just see a couple of short bolts and washers that they used to balance the top wheel and there's one on the bottom drive wheel as well. The rims each have 3/8" thick vulcanized rubber tires for the blade to run on.
Interestingly there are a bunch of castings to complete the construction of the saw (table, table tilt mechanism, bearing housings, top wheel tilt mechanism, band tightening handwheel, blade guides, lobed knobs etc.)
I bought it second (or third or fourth) hand for $300 from Herless Machinery in Clayton in the early noughties. It came with a 3 phase motor but I converted it to single phase years ago before I got 3 phase connected to the shed.
As you can see in the first picture it came with zero guarding! So in the last photo you can see some rough sheet metal guards that I bent up to protect me from both the returning blade and to stop the blade if it walked forward off the wheels. Just after I bought the saw I heard from an old joinery owner that he had seen this happen more than once. While I like the cooling fan effect provided by the spoked wheels and still do, a rotating wheel of blade advancing at the user sounded like something that I didn't need to experience!

The throat is just under 24" (after I added the guarding) and depth of cut is 9.5". It has no fence or guide slot in the table.

Recently it needed a bit of TLC as the rubber tires were flattened off through use over the years and needed to be recrowned to keep the saw blades tracking. When I visited Auscab in February he'd told me that you can recrown the tires by using of a power drill with a coarse grit sanding disc mounted in the chuck. The motion of the sanding disc gently spins the wheels while sanding the flattened rubber back into the desired crowned shape. This worked a treat which was great as I'd been procrastinating about taking them off and sending them out to be revulcanized for years!
I also did a bit of work refacing the spinning pressure plate that rotates behind the blade to resist the force of the wood being cut and I replaced the top and bottom blade guides with some spotted gum (hard and slippery).
It had been sitting on locking casters bolted to the metal plate feet for over 20 years but it was a bit tippy front to back when cutting heavy stock so I remounted it into a wooden frame with outboard casters to give it a bit more stability.

I'd be interested if anyone on the forum has any thoughts in who might have manufactured this?

Enjoy the pics.
Cheers,
Richard