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email: tony@lathes.co.uk Home Machine Tool Archive Machine-tools Sale & Wanted Machine Tool Manuals Catalogues Belts Books Accessories
Armstrong Whitworth Lathe
During the first half of the 20th century, Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd. was a very important and influential British engineering company. Similar in organisation to Niles in America, they were remarkable not only for the quality of what they produced, but also its variety: battleships, massive guns and forgings of all types, railway engines, aircraft, cars, machine tools and even entire factories and their infrastructure to manufacture munitions/ However, while they constructed many huge, special-purpose lathes (many to make battleship guns) smaller versions could only have been of minor interest to them. Today, any machine tool marked Armstrong Whitworth is very rare indeed - and few are known to have survived. If you have an Armstrong Whitworth lathe, the writer would be interested to hear from you.
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Dating from 1914 to circa 1920, this Armstrong Whitworth lathe is of approximately 6.5-inch centre height and 36 inches between centres. For the time - with its clutched, all-geared headstock, Norton-type quick-change screwcutting gearbox, integral motor mounting and separate shaft drive for the power sliding and surfacing feeds - this would have been an up-to-date and very effective lathe.
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A massive 50-inch (1270 mm) centre height gun lathe from 1913
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A powerful 12-inch centre height lathe as made in 1905
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Another product offered in the 1905 catalogue
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A special-purpose lathe made in 1903
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