It is hardly the end of the world if the next machine patiently awaiting returning to service in my workshop end up in the "wrong" colour as long as its sensibly "machine-shop", but….

It is a Denbigh H4 Horizontal Milling-machine, on its original stand although that is a slightly different shape to the identifying, ex-catalogue photo in The Oracles. Date: probably 1930s-40s, possibly as modern as 1950s (which would be as modern as me!).

It does appear never to have had the cast surfaces filled, but it's probably seen a few re-paints and looks very Gloomy and Sad. It came to me in fetching shades of vaguely-green, iron-patina and ferrous-brown with hints of gunge. I gave it a quick tidy-and-protect coat of light-green household gloss.

Does anyone know what colours Denbigh might have used? It would be nice to be at least somewhere near its original livery! As long as it wasn't black…

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A photo of a very added-to Denbigh H4 (but??) in MEW April 2019 – illustrates Ian Strickland's Readers Tips, for an extension lead-screw. He names it as a "Trident" but when I saw it at Sandown I immediately recognised it as a brother to mine, suggesting it was one of the machines Denbigh made under dealer's badges (nothing new there!).

Mr Strickland has painted his milling-machine and its accessories mid- (Myford?) green, and to show-room standard. My thoughts were a similar green or perhaps grey for my example, but it would be fitting to if something more certainly Denbigh. And perhaps pick out the embossed-cast name and Staffordshire Knot in white or red!

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Mine has an oddity: two of its lead-screws are 6tpi. I wonder if that was to special order, as apparently Denbigh could accommodate that. Perhaps for a printing-equipment manufacturer?

Correction, with apologies:

"an extension lead-screw" to "lead-screw handle extension".

The photo in the magazine makes it clear.