The lathe looks like a BH600 or the earlier 12×24 type. I'm not sure if the buttons on the left of the headstock are standard or indicate it has a VFD. Value from £1500 to £2500. Make sure you get all the original equipment sorted out.

The BP looks clean and probably similar price, I think identifying the head type is important to BP owners.

As always do some research on ebay for current selling prices, not the inflated BIN prices.

If I may suggest….

A photo is good for the initial information, but let down in this instance. Although taking pictures in a cramped home workshop can be very difficult, items photographed for sale should not be partially hidden by extraneous clutter and poor lighting, as in those two examples.

Why is that mill table buried under irrelevant boxes? Why is there a pretty picnic-basket in the lathe chip-tray? The lathe headstock is not the place to store loose, large boxes, for safety. Nor should there be electrical leads wrapped around the saddle.

These sort of things do not show the goods to advantage and worse, however wrong they may be, viewers might worry what is really there. I'm afraid that however tidy the machines underneath look, and these do, points like that can question the owner's general approach to his workshop equipment nearly as much as if they were covered in swarf and over-run scars.

The 'Picnic basket' is a tin, possibly once contained biscuits. Kind of funny that you brought it to my attention as I have had one for decades in my workshop. I think mine contains old 12v incandescent light bulbs.

Nice looking mill, looks to be a close copy of a Bridgeport mill & has even got power feed to the quill, X power feed,spindle brake, a horizontal milling attachment, rotary table, spindle tooling. As to value I guess slightly less than a genuine Bridgeport mill of the same condition, look on eBay advanced search for sold items to get an idea.

Tony

Top of my head £2500 for the mill is more like it, some one else can chip in on the lathe. If not eBay try Facebook market place, Gumtree or Lathes UK website, a dealer will give you rock bottom prices.

Tony

Thanks for the extra pictures of the lathe, Vic.

At 1985, it is older than I thought.

Not a gap bed, as I had thought.

Howard

I agree with Michael C but to be fair most of us are wedded to our cars so we will pay anything to use them and a few pence extra per gallon [sorry litre] wouldn't stop me travelling. Bloody hell the more I look at that mill the better it looks.

Tony

Edited By Tony Pratt 1 on 01/08/2022 17:33:35