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Myford Limited is a British
machine tool A machine tool is a machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformations. Machine tools employ some sort of tool that does the cutting or shaping. Al ...
manufacturer originally based at 10-12 East Parade,
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in the United Kingdom under its former name of L & P 240 Limited. The company is notable for its continuation of production of Myford metalworking lathes since the original company (Myford (Holdings) Ltd was wound up.


Original company

The company's original name was the Myford Engineering Company, having been founded by Cecil Moore in 1934. Very few changes took place to the core product after 1953 when the ''Super 7'' lathe was introduced, itself an improvement of the ''ML 7''. This model of lathe is still widely used within the field of
model engineering Model engineering is the pursuit of constructing proportionally-scaled miniature working representations of full-sized machines. It is a branch of metalworking with a strong emphasis on artisanry, as opposed to mass production. While now mainly a ...
. Other products made by the company include ML8 wood turning lathe, 4" planer, MG12H cylindrical grinder, 254 engineers lathe and the Speed 10 lathe. Most of these are no longer in production. the business was still owned by the family, and run by Moore's grandson Christopher Moore. During mid-July 2011 Myford announced a "
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sale" stating that it would be last opportunity to buy "spares, lathes and plant equipment" from Myford themselves at the Beeston site.


New company

Myford Ltd was founded by solicitor Jonathan Oxley with an original name of L & P 240 Limited. The name was changed to Myford Ltd on 26 August 2011 and continues to run from its base in West Yorkshire, where lathes are still built and refurbished. Oxley left the company on 1 August 2011, leaving the company in the hands of the Dickinson brothers, Richard and Christian, and their mother Christine. Richard also has a machine tool supplying business, RDG Tools, based at the same premises which he started in 1992


Beeston

Ian Mills,
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's statistician, worked as an electrician at Myford until 2011. In 2013 property developers M & R E submitted outline planning condition for transforming the old Myford site at Wilmot Lane in Beeston into housing.


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* {{official website, http://www.myford.co.uk/ Companies based in Nottinghamshire Manufacturing companies established in 1934 Machine tool builders English brands 1934 establishments in England