High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools

[Toolmaker51]

Far too many posers in the way......I'd bet the correct 'brochure' description is 'Planer-Mill'; powered spindles and toolbit holders, essentially lathe-like cross slides. Notice two vertical spindles on the cross-over, and two more side heads, must be 50 hp each. There are two similar machine types. What makes this a planer? The table runs on ways, carrying material. The variation is gantry type, cross-over travels instead, hence Mill-Planer. Then can be a little shorter in length, don't act like having that incredible rigidity of table type. Very first shop, one machine I ran was their 40' Gray Planer-Mill, most power of anything I've handled.
Big as this is, literally a quarter the size of the Ingersoll Planer Mill that was at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Being on the coastline, insuring it had a solid foundation, the concrete footings were 30' deep.
I've posted it's pic before, because guess who retains and treasures the auction catalog, not to mention working the entire auction period.
Enough horn honking for now...

PS. Regardless the size of this machine tool, notice it sits on a larger yet floor plate, which had some degree of machine work done beforehand.