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Myford Limited is a British machine tool manufacturer originally based at 10-12 East Parade, Leeds, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom under its former name of L & P 240 Limited. The company is notable for its continuation of production of Myford metalworking lathes since the original company (Myford (Holdings) Ltd was wound up.
Charles Churchill was born in the United States, in Hamden, Connecticut, on 8 July 1837. [3] His father was Willis Churchill, described as "a mechanic of rare ability, original in the style of his goods and in his process of manufacture," [4] who had been manufacturing brass surgical instruments at a time when such instruments were all imported to the United States.
The nature of wood defines woodturning techniques. The orientation of the wood grain, relative to the axis of the lathe, affects the tools and techniques used by the woodturner. In spindle turning, the grain runs lengthwise along the lathe bed, as if a log were mounted in the lathe.
When Monarch went into bankruptcy the company was bought by Newsmith Stainless Limited of Roberttown, West Yorkshire, [11] and now trades as Dean Smith & Grace Lathes UK Limited. In 2012 the company was acquired by the MTTG group. [12] In April 2015, it was announced that Dean, Smith and Grace was to be moved to Halifax by MTTG. [13] [14]
In this view of the definition, the term, arising at a time when all tools up till then had been hand tools, simply provided a label for "tools that were machines instead of hand tools". Early lathes, those prior to the late medieval period, and modern woodworking lathes and potter's wheels may or may not fall under this definition, depending ...
The business was founded in 1888 when Alfred Herbert and William Hubbard purchased for £2,375 a small engineering business in Coventry. [2] Herbert & Hubbard initially made boilers [3] and steam engines.
Modern metal lathe A watchmaker using a lathe to prepare a component cut from copper for a watch. A lathe (/ l eɪ ð /) is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, threading and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about ...
Boxford Lathe was a brand of lathes produced by Denford Machine Tools from 1946 until 1952. The original factory was in Box Tree Mills, Wheatley, Halifax, West Yorkshire , England. Denford Machine Tools also produced other metalworking tools including precision measuring tools such as an optical comparator .