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FUCHS "Allianz" Universal Machine Tool

The complete repair work-station in one machine is how Gustav Fuchs of Germany described their 1920s Universal machine Tool. Built onto the body of a quite ordinary backgeared and screwcutting lathe, the drill was positioned above the headstock - with the drive coming, presumably, from an extension to the lathe's countershaft drive - and the horizontal miller and shaper arranged in parallel formation at the tailstock end and sharing a table.
Drive to the milling spindle came from either an extension to the leadscrew, or from a shaft geared along side it, the overarm being carried (very simply) in a casting bolted to the bed ways. Quite how the shaper was driven is a mystery, and should provide the keener reader with a moment or two of distraction in trying to work it out….