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The Austolite shaper appears to have been either a rebadged Atlas or a clone manufactured in Australia by Fred Price Engineering. The stroke-position adjuster handwheel at the rear of the ram act appears to act directly on a screw instead of through a bevel gear - and there may be other, hidden changes - but in overall configuration the two machines seem identical. On the machine illustrated a Myford leadscrew handwheel has been fitted to the table-traverse feed screw.
If any reader can throw further light on the origins of this machine, the Author would be pleased to hear from them.

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