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Author Topic: Dating a Simplex Ed Inman Expert Film Handler Posts: 103 From: Jackson, Mississippi USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 09-01-2004 01:34 AM                        Is there any website or chart that anyone has where one can date the year of manufacture of Simplex projectors based on serial numbers? I'm trying to date a Super Simplex serial number 43546. The patent plate contains the date "December 1, 1934" but I do not know how the actual manufacture date corresponds with this. I don't think it's quite that old. thanks, Ed  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-01-2004 03:58 AM                        sure, it's a lonely job, but... wait, that's not what you meant. can't help you. carl  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-01-2004 07:02 AM                        I dated a Christie once....  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-01-2004 07:07 AM                     Was it a Large Format Christie??  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 09-01-2004 07:18 AM                    I thought it was too much dating that got a person simplex, herpes simplex, that is.  |  IP: Logged Fred Georges Master Film Handler Posts: 257 From: Lombard, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2000 posted 09-01-2004 07:42 AM                     I dated a Simplex once with dismal results. Now CENTURYS !...TOTAL SLUTS!!! Supers were introduced in 1928 & stayed in the line till the introduction of the Mighty XL in 1949 I believe. Dick Prather, Where are you when We need you!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-01-2004 07:50 AM                     I would never consider dating a Simplex, they're way too messy! Mark  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 09-01-2004 08:42 AM                     Yes but there always gushing lubrication if you treat them right  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 09-01-2004 09:05 AM                        Before I got married, I had some intermittent relationships. I shutter to think about them now, but I was gearing-up for a long term committment. It was all a matter of the correct timing.  |  IP: Logged Ed Inman Expert Film Handler Posts: 103 From: Jackson, Mississippi USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 09-01-2004 10:40 AM                        Well put, John. And Richard is right about the "gushing lubrication" (as I seem to find a new little puddle of oil on the floor every day). Still wouldn't mind knowing how old these beauties are though, if anyone keeps such data. Cheers.  |  IP: Logged Peter Hall Master Film Handler Posts: 314 From: London, UK Registered: Dec 2000 posted 09-01-2004 10:55 AM                        and I've spend many a delightful evening with a handful of Victorias, but they were 5 and 8 - I'll say no more !  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-01-2004 11:34 AM                     There are a couple threads about finding the manufacture date of Simplexes: Here is one... John Eickhof was the guru of matching manufacturing dates to the serial numbers of vintage Simplex projectors and soundheads. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-01-2004 12:25 PM                     peter said "and I've spend many a delightful evening with a handful of Victorias, but they were 5 and 8 - I'll say no more !" Some of my victoria dates have been 10's  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 09-01-2004 12:41 PM                     Supers were introduced in 1928 & stayed in the line till the introduction of the Mighty XL in 1949 How quick people forget the other sister, the Simplex E7. Oh, she had such tight loops...  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 09-01-2004 01:25 PM                       When you are tired of American projectors and have a yen for something exiting and exotic, nothing beats the Asian line, Tokiwa and Shanghai Paradise come immediately to mind.  |  IP: Logged

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