1950s Adcock and Shipley Universal Machine Tool - photos

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A buffet of machining capability, serve six comfortably, or

Quintessential man cave edition of "The Beverly Hillbillies' fancy eatin' table

I've always respected the British knack for intricate but useful design, (minus Joe Lucas). By anyone else, this would be an assembled basket case, parts hung on wherever it 'looked' like they belonged. You can see logic and very little compromise in the result, a lot of potential in far smaller foot print than equivalent machinery. Hard to imagine backstory on this; concept, patterns, castings, lube system, machining, fit & scrape work, tooling catalog...