[modeleng] Re: You can still find a bargain!
- From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:11:21 -0000
I would say RN more likely than MN.
Several threads are Admiralty and it would be unusual (but not unknown) for
anyone else to use them.
I strongly suspect that this one was used in one of the E class destroyers,
which were bult in the 1930's.
As it has the numbers 311 on many items, I suspect this is a machine number
and hence, possibly they were made in considerable quantities.
I have heard that Buck & Hickman sold some after WW2.
Alan Stepney
http://www.alanstepney.info
Model Engineering & steam engine information pages
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Kneller" <bkba09515@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:35 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: You can still find a bargain!
I saw one exactly like this a good few years ago, it was in South East =
Essex
& co-incidentally? The guy said he'd not accept less than 40 quid for =
it.
I was looking for a lathe for a friend, but this one, although a very =
good
buy, was too big for my Mate's workshop.
The lathe had belonged to the sellers father and he told me that it was
purchased from a ship that was being broken up - probably from the =
ship's
engineering room. He also said that he believed the lathe was either =
made by
Drummond or Myford in the 1940's especially for the Royal & Merchant =
Navies
- not sure if this is correct or not.
It certainly looks very capable..................
Cheers
Barry
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