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A consignment of small centre lathes ready for despatch.

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A face plate lathe driven by the gear behind the face plate. This machine would have originally been belt driven.

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a lathe in operation, being tested before despatch.

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Assembly shop, all belt driven. Note the cone pulley for adjusting speed.

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Crated machines ready for export. The front tyres are pneumatic but the rear ones are solid.

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Centre Lathe with various attachments

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Break time in the assembly shop. Extreme right is Derek Pollard a machine tool fitter who lived in Hebden Bridge, next to him is Graiger Lee centre lathe turner who lived in Cragg Vale . c1966

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Exmoor Street, Halifax. The low brick building in the centre was built as an air-raid shelter

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Gear cutting department. David Brown's were made in Huddersfield

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Lathe bed being machined on a planeing machine

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This machine went to a copper mine in Chile
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