The Colchester Lathe Company - a bit of history

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8 жыл бұрын

This is a poor quality video of unknown origin but is placed here out of general interest for those who are interested in the subject.

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@davidmarkwort9711 4 жыл бұрын

All our groundbreaking work on CNC lathes at M Tools in Halstead is shown here, I am proud to say that I was a part of this success story.

@jack_timber 3 жыл бұрын

Just stumbled across this..... Was whisked back 50 or so years to using Colchester lathes at school when we had 'proper' lessons in metalwork, was one of my favourite lessons back then. I remember I made a steam engine turning the cylinder and piston assembly from solid bar. It's a shame that youngsters today don't get this hands on approach. Great vid by the way.

@ronnieg6358 3 жыл бұрын

The 1921 Chevrolet van illustrated is a 1950s Ford Thames!

@catholicseymour292 7 жыл бұрын

I was a machinist for 40 years. Loved the Klausing Colchester. I earned a high wage running them. I could single point thread with the best of them.

@tedtalks5144 5 жыл бұрын

sad

@CMTS 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing - in preparing to update our You Tube channel with a film on the latest Colchester lathe to enter production, we stumbled across this. We had no idea this film existed, when Colchester Lathes relocated to our current site, a lot of documents were thrown away as part of massive clear out, only what was needed was kept, sadly this meant a lot of the historical documentation, from what was probably an impressive archive was thrown away. In recent times we've managed replace some of that lost, but none of us knew that this film even existed. Thanks for sharing.

@127069 6 жыл бұрын

the craftsman that worked there were thrown away too!

@user-gk9lb2zv4x 5 жыл бұрын

@@127069 It's a new world order, Dan! "A new world order, a brand new day A change of mind for the human race..."

@millomweb 4 жыл бұрын

I can't decide whether 'Colchester' is dead or not now :( Are Colchester lathes still being made ? How about a pair of brake shoes for a 1960's Student ?

@CMTS 4 жыл бұрын

@@millomweb Colchester lathes are very much still alive, we have extended our product range and continue to innovate and launch new machines and solutions!

@millomweb 4 жыл бұрын

@@CMTS So you should still be supplying spares for old machines. I see someone else is making Colchester lathes in the USA.

@tomthumb3085 2 жыл бұрын

I learned my trade on Colchester lathes. I think they were Triumph 2000 if memory serves me correctly. Beautiful and accurate machines. This video took me right back there, thank you.

@nlo114 7 жыл бұрын

I love my 1974 Bantam 800. Bigger than a super-7, smaller than the student 1600 of my apprenticeship years. Run on a transwave converter in my home workshop, it does all I want it to do except butter shirts and iron toast. A great machine, tired but not worn-out.

@danobrien9202 7 жыл бұрын

nlo114 will

@jemijona 4 жыл бұрын

Butter shirts and iron toast. That's a bloody laugh.

@millomweb 4 жыл бұрын

I have a Transwave 'box' too. It went BANG last time I powered it up. Thinking now about getting 1ph motors !

@geraldlrstubbs 2 жыл бұрын

That is interesting. I was at Felsted School when the photo was taken of the opening of the new workshops, kitted out with Colchester lathes. H.E.Reekie, the then headmaster, is shown on the left of the photo.

@brianmarak9689 3 жыл бұрын

Great documentary. The background sounds... perfect. 👍

@RogerStephensTheWrenchMonkey 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting video. I was an apprentice at the Hythe starting in 1975.

@admiralcraddock464 3 жыл бұрын

are lathes still made in the UK or are they shipped in from the far East now or merely assembled here

@millomweb 4 жыл бұрын

BIZARRE seeing 'archive footage' of machines far newer than mine !

@AethalianBunnyHouse 6 жыл бұрын

precious view back in time

@captcarlos 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that history. I trained on a Triumph 2000 back in the 90's and finally bought one for the home workshop last year. Bloody marvellous machines. Can I get parts for it from Old Blighty or do I have to go to Taiwan?

@elmoelms2743 3 жыл бұрын

My old company used to do repairs over there. Machine guards , repairs to the roof gutters. We used to deal with a bloke called John pavy. It was dirty work but it was work

@djdelight_musik7181 6 жыл бұрын

Was it Colchester Lathe Company that used to lay on coaches for the workforce in the mid -late 70's ? When i was 5 -6 years old lived on Greenstead Rd opposite Hythe Station Rd and remember a lot of coaches with yellow on them used to line up along the road ?

@pennise 5 жыл бұрын

@steve gale hear, hear.

@unixnerd23 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure it was the Student we had at school in Inverness in the early 80s, great fun learning to use them as a 13 year old!

@bostedtap8399 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

@fainderskurs-koi8767 5 жыл бұрын

У вас так в принципе чисто в цехах было, или всёж показуха? Я помню нечто подобное, приблизительно. То только там где оптику делали и полупроводники.

@Cooliemasteroz 5 жыл бұрын

Wow It seems that I had an old Mascot, I didn’t know who made it until I saw this video. The only information I had was the name Mascot in the castings but nowhere was a brand name to be found on it.

@sdapeze 6 жыл бұрын

I think the commentator was Jeffery Thorpe, who ran the apprentice school for a while. I have a video of Jeffery talking about his life, which includes his time with the CLC. I will publish that film in due course.

@127069 6 жыл бұрын

I look forward to it

@sdapeze 6 жыл бұрын

It is published on KZfaq.

@user-co4rs7ob1t 3 жыл бұрын

Эта фирма по производству токарных станков сейчас существует???

@embr4247 2 жыл бұрын

6:31 Found This Video while trying to find a repair manual for one of these.

@stevedoubleu99B 7 жыл бұрын

That was extremely interesting, but sad that, along with Paxman and others, is no more. Thanks for uploading.

@tonybrown7099 7 жыл бұрын

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@CMTS 6 жыл бұрын

Well we are still going - just not on that site anymore!

@stevedoubleu99B 3 жыл бұрын

@@CMTS That's great to hear. My apologies, please excuse my ignorance.

@Kyokunek 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Great video!

@sdapeze 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@ypaulbrown 5 жыл бұрын

Outstanding... Brilliant...from the USA

@karldegroot3131 5 жыл бұрын

...love my old Triumph 2000

@paulmuff9883 2 жыл бұрын

Are they still operating today?

@sdapeze 2 жыл бұрын

No. Not since 1992. All gone. Employess sacked and asset stripped. A sign of the times.

@paulmuff9883 2 жыл бұрын

@@sdapeze that’s sad 😢, thanks for reply, cheers Paul

@bergedie 6 жыл бұрын

love the sound effects

@iranalencar5925 2 жыл бұрын

Grande marca

@tooseybee 8 жыл бұрын

I remember Frank Seal in the training school 1966...

@shahidsaleem6222 Жыл бұрын

Colchester is greate name of engineering

@fainderskurs-koi8767 5 жыл бұрын

Лайк.

@codeandroad3020 4 жыл бұрын

I worked at CLC as a radial driller from 1972 to 1977. It was hard work but paid very well compared to any other work in that neck of the woods. Unfortunately this was the era of the unions abuse of their power. Closed shop, intimidation, weak management. The unions totally screwed that business. Japanese copies finished it off. I then moved to Derbyshire to work at Jones & Shipman which again fell foul to the unions and foreign copies. Fortunately while at J & S I moved to CNC machining and then to programming leaving the machine tool business completely. Sometimes, during nightmares, I am back at CLC. Not pleasant.

@biggestcompetition6093 5 жыл бұрын

My dad has had a 1918-1919 Colchester lathe for about 10 years now. Will anyone be able to let me know how rare they are, how valuable they are and just some in site on them so he will be able to know more about them? Also what should he do with it? It’s still in working order with a few broken bits such as a chip in one of the gears, un flat surfaces, one un original handle. It turns on as a lathe should do and has all the gears still with it.

@sdapeze 5 жыл бұрын

Scrap value or museum interest. A lathe is a precision tool. One that old will have no precision.

@biggestcompetition6093 5 жыл бұрын

Jess Jephcott ah ok thank you anyway

@gangleweed 4 жыл бұрын

@@biggestcompetition6093 Bullshit...…..I have a 1920/30 Colchester Bantam lathe and still use it. I bought it from a scrap dealer in 1980 who salvaged it from a bombed out factory site earlier and took it to OZ when I emigrated in 1981. I had to recut the bed Vee's and flats by hand with a hand planer tool and rescrape it in as it had .013" wear from the middle down to the chuck end. I regularly do single point screw cutting as I also acquired the complete set of screw cutting gears with it. I fitted a new 160mm 3 jaw chuck and a 200mm Pratt Burnerd 4 jaw. The lathe originally was driven by overhead belt drive so I converted it to a 3 step countershaft pulley and a 1 HP electric motor.

@HeidiLandRover 4 жыл бұрын

A good source of information is here: www.lathes.co.uk/colchester/

@millomweb 4 жыл бұрын

@@biggestcompetition6093 Ignore Jess :( See how many you can find on the internet. Value is difficult to weigh up. Ideally, you need to find someone with an interest in an antique lathe. As a lathe, it's likely of little value as newer and better machines will likely be available. A well-worn machine can still do precise work if you make allowances for the wear.

@honeymonster5589 5 жыл бұрын

i went to eitb croydon

@davidstambaugh569 2 жыл бұрын

I want to know the name of the idiot who thought that an automatic spindle brake was a good idea on a manually controlled lathe. Cutting threads on these machines is next to impossible.

@craig-kx1ov 4 жыл бұрын

How can you start building a new factory in 1962 & then opening in 1953 ??? MUPPET 🤔

@michaelherbert2982 4 жыл бұрын

Don't be so rude... You prick

@millomweb 4 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of tolerance on those dates ;)

@JohnSmith-gy4qj Жыл бұрын

Whats with the noisy background noise.. Terrible audio.

@conmanumber1 4 жыл бұрын

It would be nice to have a American accent on these vids.

@rayfairall4126 3 жыл бұрын

These english don't talk proper.

@conmanumber1 3 жыл бұрын

@@rayfairall4126 Its very hard to folloe, Irish and Scots is easier however we have a Scots in our district with such a thick accent its almost non English.

@philhealey449 3 жыл бұрын

Why is an American accent wanted? You do get a Thames van photo.

@conmanumber1 3 жыл бұрын

@@philhealey449 Have you heard the British or Australian accents...Yuck!, The American accent is the standard of accents worldwide and their vehicles. ..they know how to build a real vehicle like the world standard of trucks like Chevy Silverado, Ford F series, Toyota Tundra etc not like the Shit Britain makes like the Ford Transit n Commer vans..fuck they are Shit!.

@philhealey449 3 жыл бұрын

@@conmanumber1 Well, I might be biased on the intelligibility of British accents, but childhood memories of travelling in the back of an asthmatic Thames van with its mediocre Consul engine and an uncle's crumbling Commers, often with planks of wood supplementing the rear springs confirm that yes, Britain made some crap Vans. The Standard Atlas was maybe the most sub-standard of all?