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Tweedy

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After delivering a load of slabs to a customer, we ended up coming home with a trailer of rustiness.

In it are a lever mortiser machine from Reynolds, accompanying drill, a treadle lathe (maker unknown).

Which are normal enough. However there are also the parts for what I suspect is quite an early bandsaw.

The badge on it is marked 'MANSELL MAKER WELLINGTON'. Normally what I do with an old tool is look up the name of the tool, the factory etc... and find some webpages about the manufacturer, some promotional material/catalogues. However I've come up short. All I have is some works in Shropshire owned by a couple of Mansells (father and son).

The most noteworthy thing about these boilermakers and general engineers seems to be that they passed up a dough-cutting machine. But no details on their wares or when this bandsaw could have been made.

I'll post photographs as the rebuild progresses or we find further information
 

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I'm in North West Scotland. Sorry, I had no intention of hijacking your thread!
The third wheel is not obvious in the pic. Another thing that is not obvious is that this a bench mount saw. It would have been two man operation bud it had an extra flat belt wheel added for means of power. Perhaps I will make it into a thread when I am able. Thanks for the interest!
 
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