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This all staggers the imagination. I don't think one picture is going to be able to convey everything. It's hard enough to do it with our small offerings much less something of this scope. This and Frank's Van Norman truck/bus brake lathe can only be encompassed by imagination or direct observation probably. What did they DO on this Niles Heavy Duty Planer Mill? And please, no "anything they wanted". Any pics of things made on it? And something so massive it threw machines around it off? Did it throw gravity waves instead of swarf? So it had to be electronically controlled.....what time frame are we talking about here? Was it punch cards or? Did they make tank chassis out of billets of steel? Inquiring minds want to know!