Neil - That's quite a verticle Turret lathe. Shops I've worked in had verticle boring mills up to 12 ft diameter tables, and the one shop had a huge KING that was 15 ft if I remember right.
Can't remember the manufacturer but DAD had a "POST DRILL" designed to run off line shafting, instead of a "post", it was big enough it was attached to a railroad tie. Two speeds via quick change sears, no automatic feed like I've seen on smaller post drills. The shafts and bearings were amazingly tight, very little looseness in the spindle. Dad made a speed reducer, a shaft with pulley on each end to drop rpm down to low single digits. It could turn twist drills about an inch in diameter with a fractional hp motor. Dad bought the equipment from a blacksmith's shop repair shop after WW2 that dated back to late 1800's. I saw much newer equipment in the Blacksmith shop recreation in the Henry Ford museum.
It's amazing what old machine tools can do! No quick change tooling, so you just leave them set-up to whatever the last job was, last guy might want another one!
Can't remember the manufacturer but DAD had a "POST DRILL" designed to run off line shafting, instead of a "post", it was big enough it was attached to a railroad tie. Two speeds via quick change sears, no automatic feed like I've seen on smaller post drills. The shafts and bearings were amazingly tight, very little looseness in the spindle. Dad made a speed reducer, a shaft with pulley on each end to drop rpm down to low single digits. It could turn twist drills about an inch in diameter with a fractional hp motor. Dad bought the equipment from a blacksmith's shop repair shop after WW2 that dated back to late 1800's. I saw much newer equipment in the Blacksmith shop recreation in the Henry Ford museum.
It's amazing what old machine tools can do! No quick change tooling, so you just leave them set-up to whatever the last job was, last guy might want another one!