Mmm reminds me of Record vises. Back when "Made in England" meant unrivaled quality, Record decided to cast real steel vises. There are practically no other cast steel vises (there are forged blacksmith and heuer vises but they're much thinner...). Record offered many steel models like the no.35 engineers vise, or the heavy duty no.110... But non were as impressive as the No.518 heavy chipping vise.

There will never be anything like it again. It was used to chisel and chip metal on it, something that's rarely done nowadays, and even in later years Record switched to nodular cast iron on all their vises which was more than strong enough. The all steel vises were a major flex, a good cast iron vise is almost indestructible and costs a fraction of what it costs to make a steel casting... But thesteel one would be hard to damage even if you intentionally wanted to destroy it.

Everyone made quality stuff for like 20-30 years, and that was it. You get one generation of quality made goods, but then the labor becomes more expensive and everything starts going downhill to keep the profit margins up.

Yes, love my Dualit toaster and that you can get parts to repair it, if needed