I volunteer at a community bike workshop and we've just been given this piece of kit – a Preciray Appareil Brevete - along with a pile of other stuff, by the family of a man who used to run a bike shop a while back, and died recently.

It's an old wheel-truing stand from Belgium and I've been given the task of renovating it with the intention of using it in the workshop. It needs a lot of tidying up, but it looks like a great machine and I understand that some mechanics absolutely love them.

Excuse the poor pics, my phone camera skills are not too good.

Looking forward to it and would be grateful if anyone out there has a user manual or instructions that could be copied to me.