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Painted at first in a strange, tiger-like, mottled yellow-and-black finish (known as "craquellee" in German) the astonishingly conceived and beautifully-made UWG1 and UWG2 Universal Multi-purpose Machine Tools were manufactured first by the Hommel Company in Mannheim, Germany, until the early 1970s. With sales having fallen to uneconomic levels, production was taken over by "Hommel-Hercules" and Walter Foerster. The design, almost certainly dating from the 1930s, was by Hans Luce, then working at the Rheinmetall-Borsig company in Sömmerda. This original machine was adapted by the Swiss Meyer & Burger Company and marketed by them, through Astobe A. Stoeckle, as the Astoba and also built in East Germany under communist control as a version of the "Unispan".-
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