A 19th-century trade rose engine by W.[William] Mills, 13 King Street, Clerkenwell, London, with double wood bench frame, headstock with rocking and pumping motion from hand drive through flywheel, single barrel of eight rosettes on mandrel, click plate and tangent screw for interpolation, straight line chuck, combined ellipse and eccentric chucks, separate eccentric chuck, slide-rest with tangent tool slide, additional slide with drill spindle and ratchet action

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A 19th-century trade rose engine by W.[William] Mills, 13 King Street, Clerkenwell, London, with double wood bench frame, headstock with rocking and pumping motion from hand drive through flywheel, single barrel of eight rosettes on mandrel, click plate and tangent screw for interpolation, straight line chuck, combined ellipse and eccentric chucks, separate eccentric chuck, slide-rest with tangent tool slide, additional slide with drill spindle and ratchet action

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William Mills is listed by Crom 'Horological Shop Tools 1700-1900' as a maker of wheel engines in 1858 and the successor to John Bower, also of King Street, Clerkenwell. Both men made lathes and rose engines as well as wheel engines

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