DEAN, SMITH & GRACE Book "A Little Farm Well Tilled". A well-illustrated and interesting publication circa the early 1960s covering the history of the Company.
 

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.

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.

HABEGGER Catalogue Collection comprising:
H4 HABEGGER lathes Complete range Catalogue with Accessories, Stands, Drive Systems and Tooling. 70 pages.
H4A HABEGGER Complete Range Sales & Technical Specification Catalogue early 1950s. Some English but mostly French & German text.(not a first-rate copy, but the information is complete) 49 pages.

STARK (USA) Stark Catalogue circa 1900-1920s (pencil annotation). Probably the most complete of all the Stark literature, this lists and illustrates the entire product range from the early years of the 20th century in four languages: English, German, French and Spanish. Includes  Precision Bench and Watchmakers' Lathes - the Nos.

HABEGGER Complete Range Sales & Technical Specification Catalogue early 1950s. Some English but mostly French & German text.(not a first-rate copy, but the information is complete and readable) 49 pages. 

Habegger Special Accessories for Precision Lathes Catalogue. Shows all the different beds, headstocks, tailstocks, stands, drive systems, accessories, collets, chucks, slide rests and production equipment, etc. 27 pages.

TAYLOR (Charles Taylor Birmingham) Wonderful "Early Products" Catalogue: Spinning, Brass-finishers', Centre, Screwcutting, Polishing, Bench, Capstan, Plugging, Treadle and Special-purpose Lathes. Cock-boring & Tapping machines, Eccentric Chucks, ordinary Chucks, Sawing Machines, Brass-finishers' Milling machines, Tool & Cutter Grinder, etc. 75 pages.

SPRINGFIELD (USA) Lathes. general catalog showing the 14" Toolroom, 20" Medium Duty, and 25" Heavy Duty with specifications for 14", 16", 18", 20" 25" and 32" Medium and Heavy Duty Models.  Sales & Technical Specification Catalog (Maker's Bulletin 180) 1940s. 8 pages.

South Bend: "How to Run a Lathe". Detailed 128-page general instructions for a wide range of South Bend lathes. This is a very high-quality reproduction of the last high-quality, superbly printed "gloss-paper" editions (after which the reproduction was markedly inferior). Superb photographs and drawings.

South Bend: "How to Run a Lathe". Detailed 128-page printed one page per side A4 and so enlarged from the original smaller A5. General instructions for a wide range of South Bend lathes. This is a very high-quality reproduction of the last high-quality, superbly printed "gloss-paper" editions (after which the reproduction was markedly inferior).

Pearce (Frederic Peace New York USA) Precision Lathe. Sales & Specification Catalogue. 16 pages.

SHELDON Lathes and millers. Whole Range Lathe, Millers & Accessories Catalogue 1955. Detailed and well-illustrated edition. 24 pages

IXL Lathes. Sales & Technical Specification catalogue showing the most common models: 5-inch Model W3 (with bar-braced headstock), Model A.K.T. and Model A. 4 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
 

POTTER (USA) Precision Bench Lathes (New York). Very rare Sales & Technical Specification Catalogue with accessories. 36 pages

LODGE & SHIPLEY (USA): Full Catalogue circa 1922/4 170 beautifully illustrated pages.

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LODGE & SHIPLEY (USA): Condensed Catalogue December 1951 with Engine, Toolmaker, Gap & Oil Country Lathes, Copymatic, Duomatic and T-Lathes. 16 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.

V39 VDF "Factory Tour" circa 1960s. A rare and fascinating review of the VDF works and how the lathes were designed and built. Many wonderful photographs showing the production and inspection processes from foundry to finished machine. 90 pages.
 

VDF Lathes Sales & Technical Specification sheet circa 1940/50 4 pages

V41K VDF "Future Developments in the Field of Numerical Turning" Booklet 1962. 12 pages

D20C DEAN, SMITH & GRACE 1950s Full Range Sales and Technical
Specification Catalogue (small format) 24 pages.