You'd be surprised how many old machines there are still in use. My company until very recently owned the spares department for Ward lathes and it still did a fairly brisk trade - considering they'd not made a lathe for 30+ years and some were war-time models. Our shop floor has very little machinery (other than power hand tools) less than about 50 years old.

I sometimes think we make the MMSI look fairly modern and up to date...
(Slave to Percy, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 19:35, 1 reply)

I had a job at British Aerospace building pasanger jets.
Before the open day we'd cover up some the the 'secret' manufacturing machines,hand operated fly presses that had been doing the same job since the first world war, and leave just the modern stuff on display.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sat 6 Nov 2010, 9:58, closed)