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Andrew Mawson
 
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Default Colchester Student Mk 1 - some questions



Andrew Mawson wrote:

The Colchester Student was NEVER intended for home use !!!!!!

Schools, colleges and aprentice training schools yes. Small shop

yes.

AWEM

"Mike Berger" wrote in message

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This web page disagrees with you, where it says:

The names "Student" and "Master" (of both the Mk. 1 and Mk. 2
designations) refer, in effect, to the centre height and bed

length -
the Student being 6" x 24" and the Master 6.5" x 30" - for, in all

other
respects, the lathes were identical. As standard, for the home

market,
both lathes were fitted with a dual English/metric screwcutting

gearbox
but a cheaper "Dominion" model was also offered that had an

English-only
screwcutting gearbox (though with two additional pitches of 11.5 and

23
tpi), a

http://www.lathes.co.uk/colchester/page2.html


Mike,

Missunderstanding of English phrases here !!!!! "Home Market" is a
term we use for selling into the UK as opposed to "Overseas Market"
and does not refer to selling to homes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (what a lovely
thought G garden/backyard lorry/truck got/gotten lift/elevator - two
countries divided by a common lanuage)

AWEM