A good read?

[alanstepney]

I would hope so.
There arent many books on watchmakers lathes, but even so, I dont plan to add this one to my collection. ;D

www.bigtcalendars.com/0709062001/M/0709062001.htm

[joegib]

As it happens, I've got the 1980 edition of this book when it was entitled 'The Watchmakers Lathe and How to Use It'. I think it's pretty much the same publication as it features Myford and Emco lathes apart from mainstream watchmaker's lathes. It's an earlier edition so it's got to be even more valuable, right? ;D

Actually, I picked it up for 50p 10-15 years ago when my local library was pruning its stocks. In earlier decades it had won awards for its library services which included comprehensive holdings on general engineering, watchmaking and printing. It's quite close to Clerkenwell so the latter were then local trades. I acquired quite a few engineering books in this way, assuming that the library was merely renewing its stocks with more modern publications. But no, this was a permanent purge and its stocks on technical subjects, even 'modern' ones, are nowadays less than pitiful. I sometimes have a quiet boggle when I see posters here suggest to others that some semi-obscure engineering publication be consulted/ borrowed from their local library.

I suppose the lisiting price you chanced upon is a typo but this one I came across yesterday is genuine:

cgi.ebay.co.uk/EMCO-UNIMAT-LATHE-PROJECTS-BOOK-GERALD-WINGROVE-/160441429937?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item255b0defb1

Again, I picked this Wingrove book up for peanuts in a 'remainder' bookshop down the Charing X Road many years ago. I remember seeing piles of them at various such shops at the time. I somehow don't think this book is as 'rare' as the seller purports.

Joe

[isc]

Keep asking, and get others to ask for these books, and possibly they might think that someone reads these things, maybe not much chance.isc

[jackrae]

Almost reminds one of the hopefully bygone era of religous and racial putsch.

Hopefully someone in government will think that this nation needs to re-establish itself as a manufacturing industry before it's totally too late.

jack