Thanks so much to the inventors of machineries.

My dad is a mechanical egineer he's now 69 and i'm about to finish university in about a year. When he was learning to use the lathe in a tecnical school there was a bunch of brand new Colchester lathes, those used to work always keeping the motor runing, and the chuck started to spin when a cluch was engaged. Time later he started his own workshop which thankfully has never stoped for about 35 years and one of his first machines was big colchester lathe with a 15 hp motor , that thing is a beast. I've seen almost 300 kg parts being machined there, and I have that slow starting noise form the cluth engaging always in my brain. I have used it since I was 12 and that sound just feel powerful and humble <3 . I can even imagine and listen it runing at different speeds. I woud like to see a modern machine do the same :(

Excellent video!

Станок с горизонтальной револьверной головкой фирмы ,вандерер, 1938 года выпуска видел работавшим в 1995 году...😉

I was thinking about building one and this might be my favorite design thanks this will give me an idea of what I want it to be like

Hopefully I won’t get jumped on as they are now merged companies but I happen to run a pair of Harrison 12 inch ,between them they have every accessory in the catalogue. They seem very similar to the Colchester. Equal quality ,better or worse ? Thoughts please folks.

I live 2 miles from the gamet factory and the Colchester site

I remember taking my Son on a narrow gauge train,in Poland, all steam engines are Ham actors. 😊

Как будто ов 1970х года и в СССР и в США все люди были людьми, а потом к 1980м годам все стали как звери и стали ненавидеть друг друга в плане человечности, а не политики. Есть же фильми советские, американские про честность, доброту, про то что делает человека человеком, а щас идеи шовинизма, фашизма, одуричивания населения и спаивание алкоголем , это противно.

I remember in the early 1990s using a Colchester center lathe in Antarctica, beautiful machine

how old is this video?

I worked in Belfast Tool and Gauge, Thatcher paid us a visit i worked on a Colchester lathe. My greatest regret was saying Good morning to her, needless to say her visit was a kiss of death a year later we closed

When the pound was worthless they dumped a bunch of these on the US. These and junk David Brown tractors.

Just looked up my Student’s serial number. 1955/56. I’ve had it 25yrs. Who’s going to use it when I’m gone.

I had two of these lathes. One with the turret and one with tailstock. Lost the end of my finger on one of them, but they were ok lathes, just wish they were bigger at the time.

This is my one Colchester I get in in Germany in Frankfurt far away I go for that stuff signed is in German looks like made for German. Very nice very clean meant no scratches beautiful work no no use their oil. Perfect condition kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pqtplZxmnZjPpmg.htmlsi=6zaUYQjqjNYk7751

Whoa already high tech long time ago

I'm willing to bet that nothing today is built with this much precision, accuracy, or pride in your work.

Jeg har set denne video tidligere og er rimeligt sikker pa at det er undertegnede, Mikael Hemmingsen der kigger paa kameraet 4:15 inde i videoen :)

I'm not used to seeing someone's face alongside a Colchester Student. Usually just @ThisOldTony's hands.

Ddobra stvar,kolika je cena.

I wish ads were still like this, genuinely informative and interesting, shows the entire range of features and general scope of the product. Fantastic that this makes me nostalgic for an era I never existed in.

And such parts service ("We keep a full range of spare parts at all times...") is certainly from bygone days! Instead of: "Nah, sorry mate. None in stock. Nah, dunno when they'll be in".

Totally heartwarming, astounding, to see and hear the pinnacle of Great British engineering of days gone by. Surfacing and grinding and individual inspection of EVERY bearing roller to 4 millionths of an inch! A finished lathe turns a circle to 10 millionths of an inch. Ironic that, after all, Rolls Royce needed this kind of perfection to become the Rolls Royce of standards! Colchester made that possible.

The reminiscences of former Colchester employees and lathe operators is fascinating and informative. Thank you all

_Thank you very much!_ _Very interesting and informative!_

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This amazing 🤩 really this guys was very talented...❤

What a beautiful masterpiece. I just picked up a 7-11 Harrison. I may need some replacement parts for it.

This is partly how WW2 was won.

No hearing protection in sight tho

The Brits can’t even make a burger these days.

Английские станки Супер. Для СССР они даже шильдики на движках переводили на русский, а мощность электродвигателей в лошадиных силах написали)

"The World Turns on Colchester Lathes".... What a wonderful strap line. If we were still allowed to be proud of our heritage, then this film would have made me very proud. I took my boys to HMS Belfast recently - she's got several Deane Smith & Grace lathes in her machine shop. Just beautiful bits of kit!

a golden lathe ... a dream come true ... lol

Who in the 1960's, in school metalwork classes, didn't learn the basics of metal turning on a Colchester lathe ?

Still the company is running

Narrator: "its impossible to engage the half nuts in the wrong place" Me: "I bet I could"

There was/ is a colchester in Essex county when i was young... But that's in Ont. Canada 🇨🇦.... 🇬🇧 .

Отличные станки старого времени. Они работают до сих пор и будут работать.

Fascinating you need 500 different Lathes to make a lathe............ this was a Great vid.............thank you for uploading

What an amazing video. As a Colchester owner I am filled with respect for the incredible standards the company holds to. Great stuff👍👍

That was Britain in the days before it became multicultural sewer :( As a central european whose country never had any colonies i don't understand why countries like britain, france, germany, after their own people were driven out of lands to whom they literaly gifted technical progress that these primitive people would never have been able to. Then why did they allow these primitives, who threated their countryman so badly, to be accepted into their own countries. I will never understand this self-punnishing neo-colonialism. And honesly I look at the current people of western europe as degenerate coward, and i really wish they would stop being them. Europe for europeans! Take yours country back and become great again!

I guess I don't understand why a lathe needs to be so stylish in the non-functional parts, but I certainly appreciate the attention to detail and treating a machine as the work of art that it is.

"Currently, the CNC machines we use are serving us thanks to these people. I am a lathe master and after seeing these people, I have a great respect for them and I understand that they are 10 light-years ahead of us. I also understand that to produce these machines, one needs to be successful in art, sports, science, justice, literature, and education. I wish I could be the apprentice of such people. Regards and love."

A lovely snapshot of a time when Colchester (and Britain) had much to be proud of.

During my apprenticeship back in 1975 onwards, I worked on a Triumph long bed and a Chipmaster. Fantastic machines.

Memories of my apprenticeship as a toolroom turner, using both the student and the master. Happy days 🙂

Globalisation is only beneficial to the minority. Globalisation is as failure.

The days of widespread British engineering are a dim and distant memory, never to be returned. Apprenticeships are 1 year now, mine was 3¹/² years. The skills I learned nearly 50 years ago have kept me in well paid work in many different types of engineering.