Sorry in advance for asking a question without a proper answer but I have been looking out for a reasonably early horizontal borer over here for 15-20 years, the odd pre-war vertical shows up but nothing of any size or age in the horizontal. I've noticed a few verticals in threads here which have come up in clearance sales etc that seem way older than we would find, do you have belt driven horizontals about over there?
Richard.
That we do. For the most part conversions to independent motoring as COULD be back-converted to lineshaft powering. "Never
was lineshaft" far the more common.
Still HERE mostly because they have been cheap or free, and can still make chips for those not wealthy or in a hurry!
I cannot imagine a museum so well endowed - tight as resources, space included - must be in the UK - as would justify "importing" one.
Have you tried the former East bloc? They upgraded theirs more recently. Or haven't YET done so and would like to do.
You'll need to look for a machine still IN a shop, "marginal" one, AKA subsistence level. Anything idle or abandoned gets stripped to bare floor, and "at once".
What Ty said. No "OLD" tired Iron gets to loiter for any time at all, anywhere in Europe. No new home? Next stop smelter. No messing about at it.
Small-biz Europe operates out of only about a third to half the space we can typically afford in North America for a similar function, has near-zero idle barns, sheds, or pasture where Old Iron might be parked and ignored.