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Help needed to identify old treadle wood lathe

PhilipDG

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I picked up this old treadle lathe (UK south coast) recently. Chap said his grandfather had got it second hand from an undertaker. I can find no trace of maker's marks anywhere.

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evenmoreebaystuff 021.jpgevenmoreebaystuff 018.jpgI have the same basic machine, with different fittings and minus the treadle, that looks like a good original one!! I am sure they used to hawk the patterns round foundries so that the local one could make various bits of commonly needed machinery without having to make patterns, if you were really good you would attack a nameplate to it, or even add a nameplate to the patterns, and hey presto, it was one of your lathes. This one hails from North Yorkshire I think.
Phil
 








 
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