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I believe that they paid cash, and that most of the money came from money that Hilda had received from her parents when she became 21.

Paul and Hilda Clausing bought the business and building (Fig. There are not any records of the years 1931-1934, so I have depended on my memory of what my parents told me. Paul Clausing at work on his South Bend lathe, 1928.Įarly Years of the Clausing Manufacturing Company These were not in the same class as the South Bend lathes, being much lighter, smaller, and cheaper. It made small, cheap lathes that were sold through Sears as hobby lathes. Paul started looking, and he found a tiny business in Ottumwa, Iowa.

He thought that the Monarch Film Company did not have a bright future.

He could make a better lathe than South Bend.

Then in the Fall of 1929 the stock market crashed, and the great depression started, even so, by 1931 Paul decided that he should get into the lathe business. After a while he started to think that he could make a better lathe. Paul bought a South Bend lathe and put it in the basement, and used it as a hobby machine. Then in 1929 Monarch moved to Kansas City, Missouri. At the time that Paul and Hilda were married (Christmas 1925) the Monarch Company moved to Waterloo, Iowa. Paul started working for Monarch in Osage, Iowa. Paul was a commercial artist doing artwork for the Monarch Film Company. By the early 1920s Otto was a carpenter and lead house builder building expensive homes in Kansas City. It would be working perfectly, and the parents did not know that Otto had been practicing his mechanical skills. The impressive aspect was that Otto would have it back together again before the parents returned. At approximately 11 years of age Otto would take this clock apart when the parents were away. Their parents had a tabletop 'grandfather's clock' in other words a clock with a pendulum. Otto was three years older than Paul, and showed early evidence of a strong natural mechanical skill. My father Paul and uncle Otto Clausing were born near the end of the 19 th century and grew up on a small farm in very rural Hardin County, Iowa. Manuals, Instruction Books Parts Lists and ReproductionĬatalogs are available for most Clausing lathesī Y D O N C L A U S I N G I N C O L L A B O R A T I O N W I T H L Y D A, B O N N I E,ĭ A L E, A N D E L L I E C L A U S I N G: S E P T E M B E R 2000

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