JIS,

For The Record-- My 1960's era U/B cabinet has smooth paint in & out with no felt in the drawers.  Looks to be Waterloo-ish.

Quote from: johnsironsanctuary on January 26, 2013, 04:07:52 PM
Thanks Gary. I am still drooling from last week. NICE!

Branson, I called Kennedy customer service and the lovely, talented Michelle said she would do some research. I sent photos of mine and told her of your blue one. No word back yet.

The felt is black.

I look forward to the results of "the lovely, talented Michelle's" research.  I should point out that mine only *looks* blue in the picture.  It's basic battleship gray.

Interestingly, I've got two very similar boxes.  The machinist's chest I always thought was made by Parks, but I'll have to look closely for remnants of a Utica/Bonney logo.

The roller box had a hammertone green paint and I think I saw the outline of a Utica logo.  It had a hard life in a production shop and I had to do quite a bit of restoration and plate the lower drawer front where it had been kicked to push the box under a bench every night.  It is a good but not great, not quite Kennedy quality.

jack vines

Machinists boxes that don't hane rectangular drawer pulls are very unlikely to be Kennedy, they used that style pull for a very very long time, and used them for OEM boxes also (eg Proto)