"Edward Greeley" wrote in message
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Rich wrote:

Thanks for your comments Bruce. I understand that the labour of love is
probably the only profit you would get out of it, just a shame I don't
have the time or room to do it right now. I must say though I'm
surprised this lathe is here in the UK its come along way and I would
of thought that the original user would of bought a Colchester, not
that there better or worse than the Le Blonde but the Le Blonde would
of been quite expensive to import I would of thought, especially during
WWII.

Cheers Rich.

Hmm...WW-II timeframe. Lend-lease, maybe?

I was recently aboard a WW-II vintage museum ship (SS Red Oak Victory) and
the machine shop had a big Le Blonde in what appeared to be virtually new
condition. Ship board machines didn't get a whole lot of use and the
machine in quesiton may have come from a scrapped ship.

Jerry