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Self-contained Ryder Cylindrical/universal grinder


Adcock & Shipley Drilling unit

No. 3 Morse taper drilling machine with power down-feed

Drill power down-feed was controlled by pulling on the quick-feed capstan handles.
Worm-and-wheel fine feed was also incorporated with an (ungraduated) full-circle handwheel


The drill table elevation control and clamping lever

Drill table telescopic elevation screw

A three T-slot, 40" x 10" table was used with power feed on each axis: thirty inches
of longitudinal travel, eight in traverse and around fifteen vertically.


Table pivot point and power-feed knock-off arm

At the right-hand end of the table was a take-off drive, to operate a power-driven rotary
table with control built into the table power-feed arrangement)

An engraved plate carried the table and rotary table feed-rate chart


A forest of levers for the spindle speeds and leadscrew and feed-shaft settings

Tailstock-end of the bed. Note the sunken ways for the tailstock and large, permanently-attached dial-thread indicator

The bed was fitted with a shallow gap piece


Drain holes in the valley of the bed's rear V-way

Screwcutting changewheels in place


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Ryder & Son (Adcock & Shipley)
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