Although not as detailed, nor in the same artistic class as that beautifully photographed by Robert Yarnall Richie of the American Hendey factory in 1942, this tour of the Dean Smith & Grace factory during 1965 - the Company's 100th anniversary - is still an interesting record of the machine tools used and the manufacturing techniques and processes employed. Other interesting factory tours are those for the German companies Koepfer, VDF, Maho and Index, the English Archdale - together with some inside views of Herbert, Wadkin, Colchester and Lang. A rather different approach was taken by the American Monarch Company who also employed Richie to display some of the manufacturing techniques used in their factory together with the special features of their high-quality lathes ..
Joseph Dean
James Smith
100th Anniversary Medal
John Grace
Keighley - part of what was once the once industrial West Riding of Yorkshire
A section of the drawing office
A design team discussion
Production Control Department
The right-hand side of the main assembly plant
Left-hand side of the main assembly plant
A section of the Turning Department
Boring Department
Headstock Assembly Department
Small Unit Assembly Department
Multi-boring head fitted to a Kearns horizontal borer
Russell Hyrofeed cold sawing machines
Landis Lund cylindrical grinder with pivoted caliper gauges - used for the final finishing of spindles of various kinds
A battery of small Kearns S-Type horizontal borers used mainly for the finishing of axial and radial holes in the Cam-lock noses of lathe spindles
Lockwood planing machine with an Archdale milling head in addition to the conventional planning saddle and tool slide.
A row of Archdale radial-arm drilling machines - used mainly for the rough drilling of gearboxes
Newhall-Keighley grinder being used for the finishing of tapers in headstock and tailstock spindles
Churchill-Milnes double-ended fine boring machine with optical setting equipment - used for the precision boring of headstocks
Dean, Smith & Grace centre lathe in action
A row of Cincinnati vertical milling machines used for general-purpose work
Cincinnati horizontal milling machines
Hurth keyseating machine. Keyseating is process where internal shapes and forms are generated using a reciprocating, single-point cutting tool (similar to the operation of a horizontal shaper or vertical slotter). The keyseater is normally used to cut internal keyways, and other straight-sided shapes and forms, in one-off or short-run parts
