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Austin Shackles
 
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Default Colchester Student Mk 1 - some questions

On or around Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:55:48 -0600, Mike Berger
enlightened us thusly:

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


yeah, but "home market" in this context refers to machines intended for the
UK, as opposed to overseas.
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