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From the foundry, after fettling and cleaning, all larger castings that required a flat surface were taken first to the Planing and Milling floor. A 10-ton travelling crane was used to load and unload parts from a mixture of planers, plano-millers, vertical and horizontal millers and horizontal borers.

A 30-foot table Gray "plano-miller" with four powered heads being used to machine two parallel rows of lathe beds at one setting. 

The main column of a Hendey 12-inch shaper being bored on a Giddings & Lewis Horizontal boring mill

Cast-iron lathe pedestals  on an Ingersoll Plano-miller - in effect a large planer fitted with two vertical and two side-mounted powered milling heads

View of the planing, heavy milling and boring floor. Judging by the number of un-machined castings stacked up behind the tooling rack in the foreground, the shop was working flat out

A pair of Kearney & Trecker "Milwaukee"  Model K vertical millers machining screwcutting gearbox components