Popular method in old shearing sheds as well, quite apart from the cost you wouldn't want a traction engine next to each machine after all ;) , An electric motor about as big as one of that shafts journal shell nuts no doubt. I have a 9kw spindle motor on the way and I'm still boggling at the size of the thing, not alot bigger than a dogroll and not alot bigger than the 2kw one it's replacing.
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