Abstract: There is disclosed a continuous terminal crimping machine for continuously cutting an electric wire intermittently fed, stripping an end of the cut electric wire, and crimping a terminal on the stripped end of the electric wire. The crimping machine includes a rotatable arm for clamping the end of the electric wire fed along a feeding path to move the same to a predetermined position of a terminal crimping apparatus disposed beside the feeding path and returning the same to the feeding path after the terminal is crimped on the end of the moved electric wire. When the arm stops rotation, an oil damper is caused to abut against surfaces for determining the position where the arm is to be stopped. The oil damper produces damping force caused by viscous resistance to absorb shock at the time that the rotation of the arm is stopped.