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A Warner & Swasey Turret Chucking Lathe being used to turn a gear blank

An enlarged view of the job above with the tool withdrawn on its return travel

Turning a leadscrew in a specially-adapted Hendey lathe. It was not unusual for machine-tool companies to buy leadscrews in from specialist manufacturers, but Hendey preferred to make their own.

An alternative method of leadscrew production - thread milling.

Rough turning the nose of an alloy-steel forging - the first stage in the machining of a headstock spindle. The lathe is a Hendey "No. 3 Hi-Speed Production".

Published in  the middle of a World War when Allied industry was increasingly forced to rely on female labour, the original caption was: "Woman operator doing a successful job of cutting cross-feed screws"

A group of sensitive bench drills employed in jig-drilling small components

One of a set of small cylindrical grinders in a department staffed largely by women

A supervisor checking a finished cross-feed screw

A pair of Kearney & Trecker "Milwaukee"  Model K vertical millers machining screwcutting gearbox components

A job being machines on a Lucas No. 41 Horizontal Borer

Turning small aluminium gear blanks in a Hendey No. I High-Speed Precision Lathe

Sizing holes in Hendey collets. These were made "in works" instead of being bought-in from the usual specialist suppliers. One wonders at the economy of such a decision, especially when it was admitted that production only ran to "thousands" per year.

Another stage in the decidedly labour-intensive production of collets - milling the slots using a twin-holder jig.

Even some tooling was made in-house: here a sub-headstock (to get very low speeds) is used with a relieving attachment to manufacture a milling-cutter

Dave Curtis, a "veteran past master in tool making" using the sub-headstock and relieving attachment to manufacture a broach.

View of the planing, heavy milling and boring floor. Judging by the number of un-machined castings stacked up behind the tooling rack in the foreground, the shop was working flat out

Cast-iron lathe pedestals  on an Ingersoll Plano-miller - in effect a large planer fitted with two vertical and two side-mounted powered milling heads

The main column of a Hendey 12-inch shaper being bored on a Giddings & Lewis Horizontal boring mill

A 30-foot table Gray planer being used to machine two parallel rows of lathe beds at one setting.

Grinding the nose of a Hendey lathe headstock spindle

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