Asquith
Diamond
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2005
- Location
- Somerset, UK
Two milling machines by Kendall & Gent, Manchester, probably from the early 1930s.
The first one is unusual because of the method of adjusting the depth of cut by a small amount for the final finishing cut. Rather than try and lower the headstock and the outboard support by a small amount, the table on its ways is raised by TILTING it very slightly using the angled handwheel. The table appears to be pivoted at the front end, and can be tilted minutely using a screw jacking arrangement below the line of the spindle.
These two photos show a special-purpose machine used for milling the slots in locomotive axle boxes and the like. The width of the slot is altered by rotating the cutter head. The minimum slot width would correspond to the diameter of one cutter, although this would be pointless, as the second cutter would have nothing to do in that position.
Information about Kendall & Gent’s works and its products can be found in post ~181 of the ‘Galloways’ thread, here:-
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/showthread.php?t=146469&highlight=kendall+gent+gorton&page=10