Dear Mike.
A little story...
My engineering skills were mostly taught me by an old hand. His name was Alex, he had a small precision engineering unit near where you were based in Wrexham. Sadly, Alex has passed on but his son still runs the business.
Some months back I called in to "Cadge" some 1" Dia bar for this very project. Tim asked what I was up to, I of course told him and to my surprise he said that a chap not to far away from me was running successfully something on the same lines !!  And had been doing so for the last 17 years !! Tim had made him the solid steel flywheels. I asked Tim if he could put me in touch but nothing has surfaced as yet.
I am hoping to "put this one to bed" either proving or disproving this perennial myth !! 
Cheers Graham.
Hi Graham I am thinking of putting all I have found on the William Skinner machine here. It has really opened my eyes once I realised how it works, it is quite brilliant and well thought out from start to finish, and imagine it was made in 1939 just before the war broke out, and with no internet, basicly I think it was not seen again and forgotten about. All there is left is a short newsreel film and a still press photo. Skinner was also the inventor of the plate heat exchanger, I did not know that and came as quite a surprise when I read his patent. The more I delved into each part of the machine, I realised just what he had done, untilised gravity in conjunction with centripetal and centrifugal forces, I call it 3D because it is exactly that. I will upload what I have onto a separate thread for people to judge for themselves  regards Mike 
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