A question

[larzone]

Hi all!

A beautiful day here in Sweden with -10 celsius and sunshine...one more hour.
I have a question about my two SS un-notched. No notch and no numbers make those made in
46' or 47'. I noticed a tiny difference, look at picture and you see the left razor has a band where
the knurling starts. I can't see any other difference.

Do you, gentlemen, knows anything about this?

 

[BBrad]

The little machined band at the top of the knurling was found only on the 1947 Super Speed. The '48, made with the notched center bar, switched to a simpler handle with no machining.

The switch to different features was a running production change. With no date coding, we don't know exactly when the change in features took place; we only know that around 1948 they changed to a notched center bar based on blade date codes in NOS sets.

You are the owner of a razor that was made after the handle change but before the center bar change. Could be thousands like that, or maybe only one left!! Congrats!!

Enjoy your sunshine - we've had the same temperatures here but the sun seems to be lost somewhere . . .

 

[Copierguy]

The creased safety bars suggest both were made "later" in '47.

***I'm going to amend my comment, the more I look at the right one the less I am sure about the safety bar.***

larzone, can you tell us if both the heads/safety bars are the same?

Earlier:

Later:

 

[larzone]

Both heads are the new style. Fine font and that little step. Later '47 they must be. The one without band could only been produced a couple of months, I'm I right?
If so, I''ll keep that one because I thinking about letting one go.

 

[Copierguy]

It looks like '47 was fragmented several ways by handles and heads. Do they both shave well for you?

 

[larzone]

Just got them, have not even cleaned them. I think those early superspeed's to mild. I use a later one when travel though.

 

[GDCarrington]

You might want to look into this thread for a discussion of the progression of that design.

The production of the 1947 Aristocrat also may have something to do with this.

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/322255-Ranger-Tech

 

[hedonist222]

minus 10 degrees....

its 27 degrees right now

Wish it were colder.

 

[Copierguy]

OK, I just looked at some '47 Super Speed data that I forgot I had collected.
It happened a while back that I had a few at one time and looked at the head and handles to for a trend.
Below is a grid showing head and handle combos.

Of the 10 razors 7 were the later stepped or creased heads and 4 of those had the banded or shouldered handles.

 

[BBrad]

Looks like there were a lot of running production changes on the '47s, and probably not all assembly lines implemented the changes at exactly the same time!

Since they weren't serialized and were considered a consumable commodity, nobody lost too much sleep over the product change implementations. Assemble it, ship it!

Now here we are 65 years later trying to figure it out!!!

 

[mr-razor]

I believe the little band is common for the 47´s Super-Speed. I´ve two 47´s sets (one with Speed-Pak and one called Aristocrat jr. with Dispenser) and both razors have this little sholder. The 48´s Super-Speed did´t have it, so I think your 47´s without band is a late 47´s.