Some Big Machinery "THe good old days"

[max corrigan]

Interesting site from "make online magazine" shipbuilding in the late fifties in England "ships nostalgia.com" William Doxford and sons! well worth a visit some huge machinery and gas cutting some really heavy steel plate, no CNC anywhere in sight
I had hoped to post a direct link but it did not work sorry!!
Enjoy Max............

 

[John Rudd]

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/William_Doxford_and_Sons

Scroll down the page for photos.......

 

[Jasonb]

I posted the Doxford link a couple of weeks back, expect thats where they picked it up from

http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=16187.msg164905#msg164905

 

[max corrigan]

I posted the Doxford link a couple of weeks back, expect thats where they picked it up from

http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=16187.msg164905#msg164905

Sorry Jason I did not realise you had already posted this article, i must have missed it!
Max...........

 

[rake60]

I ran a big vertical boring mill with a 10 foot table for years.

At least I thought that was big.

This was clipped from the June 1930 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine.

Rick

 

[purpleknif]

I used to run the world's biggest thread roller.