Hello, I'm Gary Shepherd

hello, i"m gary shepherd my main interest was restoring/riding british and italian motorcycles, i now own the late great joey dunlops 1968 aermacchi. i have a harrison m250, boxford mill,bandsaw,pillar drill i also have a sentinel 58 universal milling machine which i would love to find out how old it is. i have built the r&b,stuart beam engine and a few others, currently building the snow engine but have lost interest in it for some reason. i am a slater/roughcaster by trade.i live in peterhead aberdeenshire. my computer skills are very limited.

Edited By JasonB on 14/11/2015 11:54:48

Welcome aboard Gary!

Sounds like a well equipped workshop, and a great bike to own. Do you ride it or just polish it?

Neil

Edited By JasonB on 14/11/2015 11:55:08

Welcome to the forum Gary, Joey wlll I think, remain the true king of the moutain.

hi neil, its a pure race bike and not suitable for the road, i have ridden it on a private road wink,wink but its mostly polish and admire .

Hi Gary!

I served my time at Sentinel when owned by Rolls Royce Oil Engine Division.

Before R-R bought the plant, various machine tools were made under licence, or as sub contract work, (such as the Swift Lathe)

Back in 1958 -60, the machine tools still being made were Halifax planers and Cri Dan B and E screw cutting machines. (These would cut a 12 inch long 1 inch BSW thread in half a minute, which was awe inspiring high tech stuff in those days!)

Then the machine tool expertise was used to make specialised equipment for machining Compressor Wheels for Gas Turbines, for the R-R factory in Glasgow.

In the Apprentice training school we had a Thiel Universal Mill, (a nice small machine - wish I had one!) which had been made under licence by Sentinel.

So to answer your question, sort of, your machine is likely to date from the early to mid 50s.

It will have started life as a well engineered and built machine, but who knows what has happened to it in the last 60 years. Hopefully not too much abuse!

Howard

Pics, we need pics. I love those little Aermacchi racers, pure sculpture to look at.

And welcome to the forum!

thank you very much howard just what i wanted to know, it is a very versatile machine and in very good condition for its age.

hi folks, as i said my computer skills are limited but i think i have managed to create an album with the aermacchi hope you like them.

That's a little beauty, Gary

Thanks for letting us drool over it.

[virtual drool doesn't degrade the paint]

MichaelG.