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localele
29th October 2012, 05:57 AM
Found this page while trolling around and it has a lot of interesting stuff on it.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of information about industry and manufacturing in Britain from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the present time.
Main Page (http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page)
GSRocket
29th October 2012, 03:25 PM
That's a great site.
I found this picture of a 1924 Colchester.
It looks like it's a treadle lathe but also optioned up with an electric motor.
How cool is that!
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/thumb/3/32/Im1924EnV138-p386b.jpg/606px-Im1924EnV138-p386b.jpg
morrisman
29th October 2012, 05:19 PM
+ 1 on that web site
I found this pic of my U.K. friend and his little Morris truck .
File:Im120506LBR-M02.jpg (http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im120506LBR-M02.jpg)
The tree loving greenies would really like those pedal powered lathes .
Mike
GSRocket
29th October 2012, 05:37 PM
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/b/b1/Im120506LBR-M02.jpg
morrisman
29th October 2012, 05:48 PM
Thanks for that
The tyres on the Morris-Commercial are Aust. made OLYMPIC brand , the size is 900-13 , an old 1930's size . OLYMPIC here were the last manufacturer of that size , for agricultural implements - until MRF in India began making that size .
The truck has a wireless set in the back .
I will try to find the U tube video .
Ok , this old movie depicts the 8 cwt wireless trucks , in this case HUMBERS . The little trucks were made by Morris, Humber and Ford UK .
ROYAL SIGNAL CORPS TRAINING - British Pathé (http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=51771)
Mike
localele
29th October 2012, 05:51 PM
It looks like it's a treadle lathe but also optioned up with an electric motor.
It would need that motor to get all that flywheel pulley going so you could then start treadle-ing .
BobL
29th October 2012, 05:56 PM
It would need that motor to get all that flywheel pulley going so you could then start treadle-ing .
The "motor" could have been handy for stopping the lathe. :)
localele
29th October 2012, 08:00 PM
Might be right BobL .I just looked at the box beside the motor and it may be a DC transformer to run the DC braking system.:D
AndrewOC
31st October 2012, 11:16 PM
Anyone want to put their hand up to start an Australian version??
We have bemoaned the shrinking of Aussie manufacturing many times here on this very forum, after all.
A.
PS, I don't know how, so bags not me.
AndrewOC
31st October 2012, 11:31 PM
Anyone want to put their hand up to start an Australian version??
We have bemoaned the shrinking of Aussie manufacturing many times here on this very forum, after all.
A.
PS, I don't know how, so bags not me.