Manufactured by the Moore Machinery Company of Los Angeles and San Francisco, this "miniature" radial-arm drill must be, if not unique, then certainly very unusual. The drills are all in England and so, in all likelihood, would have come over during WW2 under the Lend-Lease scheme.
From the centre of the 85.7 mm (33/8") diameter column, the arm is 760 mm (30") long and has a rise and fall of 610 mm (24"). The head travel measures 460 mm (18") and the quill, with a No.2 Morse taper, has a feed of 130 mm (51/8") under the control of a capstan handwheel. Machined with just two widely-spaced T-slots to take 5/16" studs, the work area of the base is 635 x 255 mm (25" x 10"). There is also a mounting for a small swivelling rise and fall table but, unfortunately, this was missing when the current owner obtained the machine painted grey - but on both blue examples shown lower down the page, one has a small drilling table in place and the other a very much larger box-section table.
Not to be confused with the Moore Special Tool Co. Inc. of New England - builders of high-precision jib borers and other high-class machinery - nothing is known of the Moore Machinery Company of California. Can any reader provide details- or have copies of their sales and technical literature? If so, the writer would be delighted to