Thanks everyone for the comments so far. As you probably guessed, neither Lexter Machine Tools or KLJ seem to be inexistence anymore although the business’s could be running under another name. Googling obviously does come up with a lot of information but provides no answers, if it had, I wouldn’t be answering the question. KMZ doesn’t come up at all. Thanks Ian for the connection to Unislide Grinding. Brian Caddy has since left but I spoke to Tony Clark of Clark Machinery the parent company of Unislide. He tells me that they can do bedway regrinding but they have no dimensional data for this particular Lorch, I would have been surprised if they had, Anyway it’s a good lead which I shall be following up.

I literally bumped into Brian Caddy at his grinding machine by mistake. After introductions I left my lathe with him for regrinding. Two days later it was ready for collection with the bed ground and the apron skimmed for positioning of the lead screw. The bed has the inverted V so is more complex than say a Schaublin or Myford. So far I am very impressed with the work but it will not be until final assembly that I will be able to document the results. Brian started his own business, Slideway Services Ltd, 02476 327874 or http://www.slidewayservices.co.uk.