I am surprised that Vicmarc would do that, they want to sell lathes.
Say Dan want 5 lathes to sell through his business, they are not going to say you are going to have to spend another £75,000 before we will do business with you.

BTW I though Phil Irons stopped selling Vicmarc lathe when the Aussie dollar went up to match the USD and above.
I remember reading about that on the other pommy forum.