Closed down engineering works Auction. A look round and auction details.

[@jagracershoestring609]

For your information, the large measuring tools are Micrometers. The plates with handles are magnetic tables for grinding machines. I used to work for Rolls Royce on Nuclear Reactor components, and aircraft engines. It looks like the contents of my Quality department in 1983, when I left the company.

[@davidrobinson6353]

Like Great Britain. Closed Down 😮

[@RobertGott-c3f]

Some great tools😊 Always sad when companies close this could be a contractor at least it going to auction And being recycled Better than a skip for scrap Thanks for video

[@gardeningfromscratch.]

Nice to see some of the gear that made "Great Britain" Great. Thanks for showing us around and there is some very nice gear amongst the kelter, problem is sorting out which is which :)

[@edstevens701]

Really interesting, I know nothing about engineering but there are still loads of stuff there I'd like.

[@fredharrowven1040]

Good Evening Adam, What a collection first if I had the money I would buy all the Rolls Royce bits I could enjoy myself just having the in a man cave , Thanks for the tour round the sheds.🛠️🛠️🛠️⭐️👍👌

[@PeteWilliams-sb7nf]

Adam you might have to put an extension onto your shed to put any of this stuff Into it.

[@gardeningfromscratch.]

Trust me, you don't need that lathe. ! Your little Myford is fine for what you need to do :) However if there is a nice vice,,,, lol

[@JGGZ1000]

You could use the giant micrometers as a stand for a Globe! Steampunk style!

[@alexgarrod9093]

Wow bud that cool.

[@paul36uk]

i had a round head colchester for years, great lathes

[@rodsheret9065]

great vid adam,have you ever watched cutting edge engineering from austrailia what an amazing engineer

[@doublejengineering2]

Great video Mate ive smashed the like button and the subscribe one too :)

[@Fintoman]

What a fabulous auction and opportunity to pick up to wonderful old school tools and equipment, but still so, so useful. The sad thing is that the engineering company this belonged to is out of business. Probably top knotch at one time.

[@PeteWilliams-sb7nf]

10:52

[@porsche4468]

Possibly for turbines and plane engines , for measuring pistons flanges etc,AE turbines made a lot of engines and turbines etc

[@phildunne2632]

Thats "stuff" from when this country made "stuff" Not just gave our heritage away and became a dumping ground for the rest of the world!

[@andyday4535]

The round roller like things in a wooden box are gauges, next thing you looked at was a sine bar.

[@damonclarkgymfitat6092]

Any 3 phase can be used on single phase. If it’s got a twin voltage motor.

[@gardeningfromscratch.]

Only if you have a suitable capacitor.....

[@TheEmbeddedHobbyist]

Normally you would use a VFD to run a 3 phase motor from a single phase supply.

[@plasmaDave]

More micrometers than you could poke a stick at. I could use one of those old mag chucks. postage too Australia if they would even do it would kill me though.

[@gardeningfromscratch.]

I saw the mag vice too, somewhat rusty but unless you have a surface grinder or mill, pretty useless.

[@plasmaDave]

@@gardeningfromscratch. Yes, it looks rough but I have one for my mill. I need one for holding small parts while grinding them, part of the plasma-cutting process. Vevor sell one though by the looks, cheap and nasty but usable I hope. 😬

[@Brian-1948]

That is where ShedMan goes when he dreams... mind you get in quick before Tubalcain comes over.

[@Herbybandit]

There's a few clues that point toward Rolls Royce Aero engines.

[@johncarter-zd1wq]

They must have done work on RR aircraft engines

[@PeteWilliams-sb7nf]

Ubu 11:12 11:12

[@matthewnaylor4412]

To spesialist for your common man what the hell do you do with most of it? but god the quality is there! Some serious kit.

[@andydickson6085]

Looks like the company used Rolls Royce for calibrating their measuring equipment rather than the stuff actually being Rolls Royce gear.

[@StephenLarbey]

You want to ask Mr chispen He works at Rolls Royce

[@Anthony-vm1jc]

Looks like they supplied rolls with aviation engine parts turbine parts. To manufacture for them your stuff had to meet there calibration standards. now it’s lasers n computers doing the measurements they took ow jurbs 🤬🤖🤦‍♂️ most of that looks 60s/70s with some older heavy industrial machinery n all looks pre 90s proper quality tools 👍✌️

[@johnsimpson8652]

It looks like its more of a collection than a closed company ,lots of stuff that has been thrown out of Rolls Royce that would have been very desirable until quite recently ,maybe still is to some. The actual machines are not in the same class other than the Jones and shipman grinder (heavy blue machine) several of what you called milling machines are actually more high end measuring equipment from Rolls Royce. It looks more of a one man band machine shop that hasn't done much for a while or even hobbiest. The auctioneer doesn't seem to have any more idea than you LOL.

[@BarryPalmer-n6i]

Not a guillotine a fly press

[@philipdear224]

Most will go to India and China

[@neilmartin5345]

You'd need some serious knowledge to run those machines to there maximum.

[@gardeningfromscratch.]

Yup, not exactly hobby machines for the most part.

[@kevinread1794]

Most of them big lathes and machine's will end up with the scrap man now obsolete

[@Graham19951]

When I bought my Colchester student from a yard by Bristol, there was many tons of big stuff rusting in hid yard. Huge Dean Smith and Grace lathes that cost mega money. More big stick welders than you could count. Lot of people want hobby stuff, but this big stuff had been super ceded with modern gear. I went to night school to learn a bit, but that all got turned into D&T and cnc lathes. Students had to design the plans first for the machine. Any thing you could cut or burn yourself with was scrapped. Ended up I had more gear in my garage than they had at school.