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AJAX Milling Machines
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Ajax, based for a long time on the outskirts of Manchester, England, were not manufacturers but importers and distributors of a wide range of less expensive machine tools.  Items factored included milling machines ranging from simple hand-operated horizontal types through a number of popular Bridgeport Series 1 clones to ordinary but massively-built vertical and horizontal types. Slotting machines, shapers, metal saws, lathes drills and doubled-ended grinders were also offered in a confusing variety of styles and sizes.
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Ajax AJT1, AJT2 and AJT3 Turret Milling machines. All identical apart from table size, these were Spanish-built and based closely on the Bridgeport Series 1. Later models had safer, full-circle handwheels

Ajax AJT1, AJT2 and AJT3--left-hand view

Ajax AJT4--a larger turret miller with a particularly heavy knee. An even bigger version the AJT5 was also offered

Ajax AJT4--left-hand view

2A

2RH

4A and 4RH

AJ7 and AJ8 horizontal. These were very neat, popular machines of which several thousand must have been sold. The motor was mounted neatly inside the cabinet base and drove up to the spindle using V-belts. An even larger version, the AJ9 was also listed.

3V and 4V vertical

3V and 4V vertical

An earlier model from the 1950s - the Cleveland No 2 and No. 3. Note the Cincinnati-Type dial controls for speeds and feeds

Cleveland No. 4

Cleveland No. 4L

Cleveland No. 5

AJRH 1800 and AJRH 2000

AJRH 1800 and AJRH 2000