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The Austolite shaper appears to have been either a rebadged Atlas or a clone manufactured in Australia by Fred Price Pty. Ltd. (Fred Price Engineering) of 69 Barry Street in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton (the Company was removed from the Companies Register in 1977, but the likelihood is that they had ceased trading many years before).
Positioned at the rear of the ram, the stroke-position adjuster handwheel act appears to act directly on a screw instead of through a bevel gear as on the Atlas - and there may be other, hidden changes. However, in overall configuration the two machines seem identical. On the example shown below a Myford leadscrew handwheel has been fitted to the table-traverse feed screw.
If any readers can throw further light on the origins of this machine, the Author would be pleased to hear from them.