I really should stop idly web surfing and get on with some housekeeping. But before I do I should make a note of something that I encountered on another site that i waste a lot of time on, Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/news
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Excellent work, all the more so considering the situation.
Bradley and his fellow prisoners must have been treated relatively well, perhaps because the artificial limbs were presumably for injured Japanese servicemen. If so they were fortunate when you consider how the Japanese treated most of their prisoners,
I wonder if the lathe still exists? I hope so - and hope its history is known along with it.
The article is Item no. 89 on the Hacker site, and its source is credited to the 'lathes.co.uk' web-site, a British, very comprehensive archive of machine-tools by a huge range of makers. The full article ends with a reference to a description of it in a 1983 edition of the British hobby magazine Model Engineer. (The Engineer magazine cited seems to be an American trade publication.)
