They also manufactured other automotive service machinery, such as brake lathes and crankshaft grinders.

There is no longer access for the large abrasive disks of a crankshaft grinder to reach each bearing, the offset crankshaft webs now being in the way.

It has also helped to establish a pilot program to provide credit to small operators: for example, a mechanics’ cooperative in need of lathes and crankshaft grinders (World Bank 1989, p.