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    Default Machinery Magazine - Britain 1930's

    I went to the Ballan Great Vintage Rally on the weekend and one of the exhibitors had a selection of old paperwork that had been saved from going to the tip when the old Ronaldson Tippett factory had been cleared out. Among the paperwork was a pile of Machinery magazines, a periodical dedicated to engineering machinery printed by the Machinery Publishing Co Ltd of London so I bought a few copies. The magazine, from the 1930's, is basically full of advertising for British machine tool companies along with articles on innovations, practices and stats from the industry.

    Some folks on here might be interested in these so here's a few scans of some of the contents.
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    December 1933 edition

    Machinery - Dec 1933 01.jpg
    Original patent of the Dickson type tool post.
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    Kendall & Gent, Archdale.
    Machinery - Dec 1933 03.jpg
    Parkinson, Ward, Pearn-Richards.
    Machinery - Dec 1933 04.jpg
    Jones Shipman, various hardness testers.
    Machinery - Dec 1933 05.jpg
    DSG lathe and Robblak universal tool room vice, Craven milling machine.
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    Craven lathes.
    Machinery - Dec 1933 08.jpg
    Massey Power hammers.
    Machinery - Dec 1933 09.jpg

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    January 1934 edition.

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    Kearns & Dormer.
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    SIP universal dividing tables.
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    March 1937

    Machinery - Mar 1937 01.jpg
    Stirk planers, Hrbert screw machines
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    Krause boring machine
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    Schiess Defries rollers, interesting given the proximity to the war.
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    Kearns & Berthiez borers
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    Craven lathes
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    March 1937 continued

    Machinery - Mar 1937 07.jpg
    Report on the Leipzig fair, again interesting given the events to follow in a couple of years.
    Machinery - Mar 1937 08.jpg Machinery - Mar 1937 09.jpg Machinery - Mar 1937 10.jpg
    Various tooling and fixtures.
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    April 1937

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    Churchill slideway grinder (indirectly)
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    Metropolitian Vickers planer drive.
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    Droop & Rein milling machines.
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    Craven lathes.
    Machinery - Apr 1937 05.jpg
    Butler planers.
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    Lang lathes.
    Machinery - Apr 1937 07.jpg

    That's about it for now, there's far too much to scan everything but if anyone is looking for a particular brand or product, please let me know and I'll have a look to see what I can find in the copies I have.
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    I have the december 1928 edition, it is pretty interesting reading.

    On another note the job in the Pearn-richards borer (pic 3 post 1) is the mainframe of a symons 4 1/4' cone crusher, and they are boring the outer location diameter for the countershaft box. That casting weighs about 4.5T not 10T. I know all this because i am currently rebuilding one at work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kwijibo99 View Post
    Original patent of the Dickson type tool post.

    Wow. Thanks for the scans.

    Now I know why the Dickson QCTP is called Italian Style (vs Multifix being called Swiss)
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    "No. 400,530. Luigi Amadore, 19 via Porta Nuova, Milan, Italy.
    [Application date, April 18, 1933. Published November 19, 1933.]"

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    Perhaps they’re quoting the weight of the assembled crusher rather than just the housing in question. Makes it sound more impressive with a bit of plausible deniability on the facts.

    I always thought the Dixon was a Pommy design until I saw this.

    I like the sound of the Boehringer hydraulic drive lathe in the Leipzig fair article, one of them would look nice next to the Thiel.

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    I have one of the same Parkson universal mills . Unfortunately I Don't have the dividing head or the gear set for the helical gear cutting function. The machine is in fair condition, it is well well used and it looks to be a wartime made one.
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