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Thanks everyone, I did look everywhere but I wasn't sure what they were called.

Nice one, would you know the size for the motor (standard)

I need two of these for my Brook Crompton motor.

Les, my motor only has three wires to the windings, look here @ 7min 48 seconds. **LINK**

The two other wires which were both connected to "T" were/are a thermal cutout switch, which I have put back into the windings circuit and it works. I don't know why someone disabled it?

Update to help others, after a lot of research and testing from a friend I can confirm that my motor has only three wires, red, black and yellow. Black and red are for the main running windings and yellow is the start winding.

There are two other wires which for some reason were paired up (brown/pink), these are a thermal cut out which does work so has been back into the circuit.

This type of motor is NOT REVERSIBLE. The only thing I don't understand is why neutral (blue) is wired to my red of the windings, we did try reversing the live and neutral but the motor does not change direction.

Today I removed my control panel (Which has Myford written all over) to check what's going on in there.

I also plugged it into the mains. When I press the start button there is a big clunk so I guess my No volt is working. It does this in the forward and reverse positions but not whilst off.

ONLY TWO wire are connect to the motor cable, the others are tapped up.

I think I need to make my motor back to standard and then check my forward/reverse switch to see if has numbers like below.

Yea, I was very lucky to find it just after posting, I don't think that article was around ten years ago???

I think my motor wiring has been changed to accept a standard three pin plug power supply.

I have since found this, **LINK**

I think I need to make my motor wiring back to standard as per the link/pictures, then I have an electrician friend who can test and wire my original forward/reverse, on/off buttons back up using the green,blue,white and red from my lathe control panel.

I think the original wiring was working ten years ago, it's just that we forgot how to wire it back up. We took the motor to a guy who connected a UK plug and lead directly. It's been like it since.

I've been left a Super seven to replace my ML. However I don't know how to wire the motor. Ten years ago when we moved it we forgot the wiring, someone wired it to a UK plug and it works. Now it's in my possession I would to to get it up and running correctly. I've added pictures of motor, lead and control panel.