Surprisingly, a bench as little as 16' deep from the wall will accommodate an ML7. An ML7 is around 42' long and occupies a space about 22' front to back while a Super 7 is approximately 46' long and a little deeper than the ML7 at around 27'.

Thus, in late 1952, the Super 7 was launched (with the provisionalВ catalogueВ dated November of that year) - a machine that was able to accept all existing ML7 accessories.Д«oth lathes can turn a maximum diameter of 7' over the bed and 10' by 1.5' thick in the gap betweenВ centresВ the ML7 can handle material up to 20' in length and the Super 7 19' - or both a little more if you allow theВ tailstockВ to overhang the end of the bed. By the earlyВ 1950s, with just theВ ML7В in production (though a popular cylindrical grinder, the first of many, had also been introduced), it was decided that the market could stand the addition of a significantly altered and more highly developed lathe. capstan as the 'G', theВ M.L.6В capstan as 'H' and theВ Myford/Drummond M-TypeВ as 'J'. The works prefix for the ML7 was 'K' - with other contemporary designations including theВ ML.5В Capstan lathe being found as both the 'F' and 'R', the M.U. The pages were typed, reproduced on aВ Gestetner, and contained just one photograph showing the lathe mounted on its special 'octagonal-form' braced sheet-steel cabinet stand.В The first proper, fully illustratedВ catalogueВ was issued in October, 1947 and contained not only a complete technical specification but also cut-away diagrams and a list of the many and varied accessories.ДЇrom the start of production the ML7 was designed to accept a variety of profitableВ accessoriesВ (all listed and illustrated in the first fullВ catalogueВ dated October, 1947) and very soon, with such an expandable and properly-engineered English small lathe on offer for the first time, many ex-service men (with gratuities burning a hole in their pocket) caused a lengthy waiting list to develop. Undoubtedly drawing some design influence from American Atlas machines (including theВ 10-inch) the ML7 was announced to the press in February, 1946 withВ the firstВ catalogueВ stamped 'Provisional'В and printed in the same A5 landscape format used for ML2 and ML4 publicity material the cover was dark-blue with the single word 'Myford' picked out in gold and in the company's traditional script. In response, and designed during the closing years of WW2 (1939-1945) by TedВ Barrs**,В MyfordВ launched what was to become the most popular and sought after small lathe in the UK, theВ ML7. However, despite their success, not even the most enthusiastic of owners could boast of them as state-of-the-art products and, by the close of the decade, the new-for-1937 AmericanВ Atlas 6-inchВ (with its all-V-belt drive countershaft, roller-bearingВ headstock, fully-guardedВ changewheelsВ and a host of user-friendly details) was setting the bench-mark for hobby-lathe design. Neat, compact and of appealing appearance all were designed and priced to appeal to the amateur market. The foundation of this success - and the rise ofВ MyfordВ to pre-eminence amongst the then many competing makers of small lathes - was a range of just four machines: the very similarВ ML1, ML2, Mе…ѓ and ML4. When, in September 1934, Cecil Moore founded theВ MyfordВ Engineering CompanyВ and rented a spare room in aВ 5-storeyВ lace mill inВ Beeston,В NottinghamshireВ (the address in the early sales sheets was given asВ Neville Works) few could have foreseen the day when, ten years later, he was to occupy all but a fraction of the same building and to continue trading, as the same company, until August, 2011.

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