Sharp millers were manufactured by Town Bent Engineering of Henry Street, Rishton, Lancashire, England until, it is thought, the mid 1990s.  Scaled in capacity and mass to appeal to model and experimental engineers, just a single basic machine was made, marketed in two versions as a simple vertical and a ''universal'' - with both horizontal and vertical attachments (and a useful slotting head). However, the company would no doubt have sold just a horizontal model if asked - and this could then have been transformed into a vertical when funds allowed. The miller was built in both Mk. 1 and Mk. 2 versions; unfortunately the small differences between the early and late machines are not clear and these notes concern only the later type.
For a small, bench-mounted miller the Sharp was unusual (though not unique, it shared the feature with some Centec models) in having a 16'' x 4.5'' table with two T slots that was able to be swung 25° in either direction from central - so allowing it to be properly described as  a "universal". Unfortunately, ambiguous wording in the sales brochure did not help to make it clear if this facility was offered as standard on both horizontal and vertical versions. The table had 12''  of longitudinal travel, 4.5'' of cross and 10.5'' vertically. The feed-screws were 10 t.p.i. Acme form and ran through generously-sized bronze nuts; the dull-plated micrometer dials were a respectable size and the table's top surface finished on a grinder.
Both horizontal and vertical spindles were No. 2 Morse taper, ran in taper-roller bearings and, to allow Myford owners the economical use of existing collets and chucks, carried the same 1.125'' x 12 t.p.i. Whitworth-form thread used on the mandrel nose of the 7-Series lathes.
In three parts, the cast-iron body of the miller consisted of a rectangular foot, the main column (through which ran the horizontal spindle) and a bolt-on top section with two uprights that clamped the 2-inch diameter solid-steel overarm in place. The overarm did duty in both horizontal and vertical modes supporting the cutter-arbor drop bracket in the former - and the vertical head, motor and intermediate multi-step pulley in the latter. Socketed onto a boss carried on the end of a (rather clumsy) bracket bolted across the back of the foot casting, the same motor also powered the miller in its horizontal mode.   
Fitted with the recommended 0.33 hp 1-phase  1425 rpm motor and a 2-inch pulley, spindle speeds for the vertical head were: 180, 350, 620 and 1200 rpm while with a 3-inch pulley (the largest recommended) these rose to a more useful: 270, 475, 930 and 1800 rpm. For horizontal work the drive was arranged to pass through an exposed, lathe-like backgear system that both multiplied the torque and reduced the speeds to ones more suited to horizontal milling: 60, 120, 300 and 600 rpm with the 2-inch pulley and 90, 180, 300 and 600 rpm with the 3-inch.
The Sharp miller stood 33 inches high with the vertical head fitted, was around 24 inches wide, 35 inches front to back and weighed approximately 320 lbs..