We receive a huge number of requests for machine-tool specifications - especially weight, size, speeds and capacities - and, while we are always pleased to help, these can take some time to research and answer.

PRATT & WHITNEY (USA) Wonderful full-range Catalog dated 1897. Lathes, millers, drills, grinders, etc. (small format) 399 pages. We make every effort to ensure that the manual is of as high a quality as possible. It's in the form of a bound print from a very high-definition scan printed at 1200 d.p.i.

Pratt & Whitney Precision Machine Tools, Lathes, Jig Borers, Millers, Grinders, etc: full-range Catalogue, 1928. 140 pages.

BROADBENT & SCHOFIELD Machine Tools. Complete Range Catalogue showing the machines as produced during the 1950s and 1960s. Includes: Lathes, Horizontal Plano-milling Machines, Vertical Boring & Turning Machines & Bar Reeling Machines. 72 pages.

ARCHDALE Comprehensive, beautifully-illustrated full-range Catalogue Circa late 1940s to the 1950s showing milling machines, a wide variety of drills, horizontal and vertical milling machines, thread and cam milling machines, milling machine accessories and "special machines" 152 pages.

MISAL Manufacturing Programme Brochure. Full range of lathes, milling machines, drills, saws, grinding machines & shapers, as manufactured in the 1960s and early 1970s. 24 pages
 

TOS Factory Tour. Anniversary Booklet 1973. Profusely illustrated showing machine-tool production in Czechoslovakia on the shop floor of the SKODA/TOS works with Lathes, millers, grinders, drills, etc. in production.

FLOTT Drills Catalogue collection - older to newer.TB-6 high-speed miniature (2 pages); SB23 V-belt drive Mk.1 and Mk.2 (4 pages);
SB23St variable-speed drive (2 pages); full range catalogue (16 pages) showing the types: SB32STV and SB32V,
SB32ST and SB32,SB25STV and SB25V, SB25ST and SB25, SB23L, TB23L, TBZ23L, SB16ST, TB16ST, TBZ16ST, SB16, TB16 TBZ16,

BREDA 30th Anniversary Range Brochure. Lathes Models; BRF150, BRM180, BRL225, BRL250, BRP250, BRP300. radial-arm drills Models: R915L, R1200L, R1220MP, R1580MP, R1880MP, Twist Drill Grinders AFP30, AFP50 AFP80. Plus interesting pages on the factory background and history. 16 pages

REINECKER Gear-cutting Machines & Special Machine Tools - Duplex Head Millers, Slot Milling Machines, Double Spindle Cylinder Boring Machines, Can Forming & Profiling Machine, Cam Copying machine, Twist Drill Manufacturing Machine. Catalogue circa late 1920s early 1930s. 120 pages.

AJAX Machine Tools. AJAX were not manufacturers but importers and distributors who badged machines as their own.

T1800 TYZACK Catalogue circa 1935. A vast range of Machines, Tools and Accessories for metal and wood working. 243 pages

BOXFORD Machine Tools: a Special Catalogue Data Pack of all products that shows the conventional machine tools made by the Company. Spans from the very early 1940s 3-inch Precision Lathes and Rear-drive models to the later Underdrive types and the final Geared-head versions.

GRIMSTON Drills and other machine tools. High-quality reproduction of the complete maker’s catalogue collection covering from the 1940s to the 1970s. Includes the full range of geared-head drills the E46, LE46, AH, S, E47, LE47, E44, E45, LE44, LE45, E46, LE46, E47, E48, E49.

WALDRICH SIEGEN Large Machine Tools. Full-range catalogue circa 1960s: High-speed lathes, Roll-turning Lathes, Roll Grinders, Planers, Combination Planer and Milling Machines. 16 pages.

SWIFT (UK) Magnificent Catalogue dated 1930 showing the Company's radial drills, girder drills, tilting and swivelling work tables, etc. 140 pages.

GSP Guillemin, Sergot, Pegard Machine Tools, Paris. Catalogues showing the company's Shapers (4 pages), Vertical Drilling & Boring Machines (2 pages) and Radial-arm Drilling Machines (12 pages)

ARCHDALE RADIAL-ARM DRILLING MACHINES - Data Pack: Most of the Company's radial-arm drills appear to have been covered in a Publication with the title: "Light, Medium and Heavy Duty Types".

Cataract (Hardinge) Unfortunately there was never a "Manual" for the Cataract lathe and millers - but there is a wonderful full-range Catalogue showing all the Precision Bench and Screwcutting Lathes (including a complete catalog for the wonderful "Quick-Change" model), Milling Machines, Automatic Gear and Pinion Cutters, Drills and the full accessory range made from the early

The Machine Tool Archive on a 32 GB flash drive.