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Boley Precision Millers of the 1920s & 1930s
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Besides watch and clockmakers' lathes and accessories, watch and instrument-making tools and special machines for watchmaking factories (such as forming machines), Boley were also responsible for a range of very high quality precision milling machines.

Boley UFR Precision Universal Mill and Jig driller from the 1930s

This special miller was fitted with built-in rotary table in the form of a compound slide with travels of  200mm along the X axis of the table and 140 and 120 mm on the slide itself. Designed to help with radius milling the technique was to adjust the center of the radius, by using a zero stop under the spindle, then set the X axis to the radius size. The z-axis (on the head) was also adjustable, in 25mm steps, by loosing the milling-head beam and inserting measuring slip blocks under two rests, one on each column arm. The milling head had travel of 50mm.

A slightly later version of the Boley UFR thought to have been made in 1939

1920s Precision bench miller using a modified lathe headstock of 90mm centre height from the Boley No. 4 precision plain-turning bench lathe. The machine was supplied with both screw and lever feed to the X and Y axis feeds.

Boley precision bench miller with a bracket to adapt it to vertical milling
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Boley also made a range of ordinary workshop and production milling machines - though details are scarce