Restoring a Top Hat

[Bob Culver]

Continuing the theme my father fitted a motor to the hand model. It required making a small seating pad and in typical meticulous manner he used blue to establish a nice fit. The shuttle is very heavy and never intended for speed and under my mother's less mechanically sympathetic use it vibrated disturbingly. The serial numbers and date are all on the Net.
I was in an Op shop recently and a customer purchsed a perfect complete early hand model for equiv L75, to use as an ornament......