Multi-spindle drilling machine - GIF

[Frank S]

I would think if this machine was for production, it would have a fixture to locate the part being drilled instead of the hodge podge clamping method used.
Way back in the beginning of the 1970s while home on leave I briefly worked at Pettibone Texas. I ran a drill press that had a gang drill head with 5 drill bits attached.
The bits were ground in such a way to drill and Champer in 1 operation then the part was rotated in the fixture to drill 5 more holes. About the only thing I had to do was insert and clamp the part bring the spindle down close to it lock in the feed switch it on wait until it reached the stop raise the spindle rotate the fixture to the next position let it do its thing again then repeat. I think in the 2 weeks I worked there I made a little more than a month's Army pay.