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- Thread starter lathefan
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sable
Titanium
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Elliott/Alba/Royal (Different eras of same machine) shaper in the right forground. Pollard/Herbert Drills behind.
It always surprises me that generally there are no benches or anything to put your bits and pieces on in these old pictures and I have seen plenty of places where that is also the case ,it would drive me nuts having to put everything on the floor and can't be very efficient.
It always surprises me that generally there are no benches or anything to put your bits and pieces on in these old pictures and I have seen plenty of places where that is also the case ,it would drive me nuts having to put everything on the floor and can't be very efficient.
Limy Sami
Diamond
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- Norfolk, UK
Good pic Lathefan.
IMO it has an ''English look'' to it, and the name ;- Hartridge I knew were big in diesel injection test equipment, had a google and they're still at it
Hartridge | World Leaders in Diesel Fuel Injection Technology
IMO it has an ''English look'' to it, and the name ;- Hartridge I knew were big in diesel injection test equipment, had a google and they're still at it
Hartridge | World Leaders in Diesel Fuel Injection Technology
sable
Titanium
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Good pic Lathefan.
IMO it has an ''English look'' to it, and the name ;- Hartridge I knew were big in diesel injection test equipment, had a google and they're still at it
It looks like the companies products are being put together in the next bay on the left ,I don't know what you think Sami but this looks like 50's or even 60's but I guess there was still plenty of line shafts left around at that time.
billmac
Stainless
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Looks like 40s to 50s to me. They might still have had some lineshaft driven machines in the early 60s but probably not the whole bay less the drills. The layout is poor and they are short of space. As Sable says, the lack of parts that have machined is a bit odd.
Is that a pantograph in the very near foreground, cropped off?
Is that a pantograph in the very near foreground, cropped off?
Limy Sami
Diamond
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Sable & Billmac, that was my take on the picture, and like you I hate not having benches and stands to put gear on, plus parts are liable to damage on the floor - which in itself get's further away with every hour of the shift !
I would say yes to the Pantograph - which by the castings, looks a bit Taylor Hobson-ish to me.
I would say yes to the Pantograph - which by the castings, looks a bit Taylor Hobson-ish to me.
