Haighton Major

[BillTodd]

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.