Haighton Major

**BillTodd** · 06-10-2010

Wow, another Haighton surfaces! That makes a total of three known to still exist - almost enough for a breeding programme :)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

http://haighton.webhop.net

**BillTodd** · 05-02-2011

A fourth Haighton Major has turned up....

At a Gun shop here in Colchester.

Bill

**BillTodd** · 09-02-2011

Oops, I bought it - to save it from the scrap man :whistling:

I now own two of the four known to exist

**irving2008** · 09-02-2011

:lol: dare i ask how much?

**BillTodd** · 09-02-2011

Originally Posted by irving2008

:lol: dare i ask how much?

Well put it this way, I've enough room to put a few hours into the old girl before flogging her on eBay (or wherever)

:)

Bill

**BillTodd** · 23-03-2011

Tucked away amongst the junk in the workshop where I found the fourth Major, I found what must be, for me, the find of the year

:)

I've been searching the web for over a year now just trying to find a picture of this thing.

It is no less than the Haighton supplied Victoria universal dividing head and Haighton manufactured gear casing.

It allows the machine to cut spiral, helix gears etc. etc. by rotating the work piece as the table moves.

There's probably less than a dozen of these around and one turns up in my home town - amazing!

Annoyingly, someone has sawn a 4 " square chuck out of the corner of the backing plate, but I should be able to weld a piece in to fix it up.

**BillTodd** · 13-09-2011

Out of the blue (green?) this even came and email from Tom in Ireland telling me of his friend with Haighton Major serial number 0007. This is the earliest one known so far probably from late '53 or early '54.

I await pictures ....