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max corrigan

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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............
 
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.

80footboringmill.jpg


Rick


 

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