Model 8-C Fuse Router "Universal Horizontal Routing Machine"

The Model 8-C Fuse Router (officially a "Universal Horizontal Routing Machine") was introduced to the product line during WW I. George II was approached by a Mr. Lassiter, (formerly a customer at American Locomotive Co.) on behalf of the U.S. government to build a machine which would cut a powder groove in artillery shells to extreme (for then) levels of precision. George was approached because the job seemed to be an engraving effort. By the end of the war, Gorton Machine had shipped more than 1000 No. 8-C fuse routers.