Anyone ever hear of New England machine tools

As the title says, has anyone ever heard of machine tools, shapers mainly made by a company called New England ? There is one for sale not too far from me for reasonable money. I have checked lathes.co.uk and they have nothing listed, and information is scarce about this brand.

http://www.donedeal.ie/tools-for-sale/engineering-tools-equipment/7455636

Edited By ronan walsh on 25/09/2014 22:39:03

Ronan,

If it's one of these, it looks pretty purposeful

MichaelG.

Yes Michael , thats the machine. Very little about them on the web so i am guessing its a badge engineered machine. But made by who ?

Ronan,

There is just a possibility that it's these guys.

Might be worth browsing through their site, to see if that badge appears anywhere.

MichaelG.

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Edit: This [Alba 1A & Elliott 10M] looks remarkably close.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/09/2014 23:42:58

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/09/2014 23:45:22

Rohan,

As well as the Alba and the Elliott the shaper look very much like the Realm-Royal 10" which developed in to the Viceroy-Royal 250mm they both have the same four speeds and the clutch and the top slide is the flat tenon type rather than the vee type.

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Metal_Shapers/photos/albums/930406761/lightbox/1558616861?orderBy=ordinal&sortOrder=asc&photoFilter=ALL#zax/1558616861

A link on to the Yahoo web page on shapers

Thanks all. Its strange its not a known brand or maker, it might have been made under contract by someone like alba or elliott i suppose. The base is distinctive in its shape though.

Don't know if this thread is helpful? You get the feeling there is some common parentage in there.

Murray

Hi Ronan,

The Realm-Royal 10" which I spoke about earlier was taken over by Denfords who had taken over Tom Senior.

and later marketed under the Viceroy-Royal went metric from 10" now to 250mm and so I am told made up to 1979

Denfords moved resently and all the old drawing data base has been scaned and quite a lot of the parts of the shaper are in the archive drawing section of Viceroy machine tools so you if needed can look at the drawing to make new parts for either the Realm-Royal or the Denfords-Viceroy-Royal shapers.