Hi Patrick,

thanks for doing that bit of research, I’ve yet to read the interview you posted but will do this evening. You found better results than I did, all I found was mentions of Robn Ackers in other pages.

Whether they are worth a lot of money or not isn’t the interest for me, in saying that, it would be nice to know if they are or not. For me they hold sentimental value, my Uncle was brilliant and most of my childhood memories include him.

As for authenticity, it was my Aunt that mentioned the name. I honestly think that these machines were a bone of contention and my Uncle insisted that they were top notch machines as built by Ron Ackers to appease my Aunt. My thinking is that there are many more famous names he could have used, why pick on Ron Ackers if he was not telling the truth?

I’ll get some photos of the machines posted this evening, I doubt it will help though as they have no distiguishing marks whatsoever, all they’ll show is the metal (brass) and the style of design. Being handmade, I doubt any two machines, built by the man would be identicle.

The research and hopefully the forthcoming discussions will be of an interest to me and even if they are worth a couple of hundred pounds each I doubt I would sell them.

Anyhow, thanks again for helping out and any further input from you would be excellent.

Regards

Roger