WHEN Americans think of the apparel industry in the Far East, it is natural to think of dilapidated factories with rows of poorly paid workers sweating over antiquated machinery.

The greatest frustrations may have been with the antiquated machinery, 40-year-old hulks that are finally to be replaced by 2006.

A Succession of Owners The mill, which started about the turn of the century and has had a succession of owners, has seen potential suitors give its antiquated machinery the once-over and leave shaking their heads.

We spend all this money running this material that's sensitive to light, because it has silver alloys in it, through antiquated machinery.

The locomotives and rolling stock were small, wagons and carriages were of wooden construction, the track and bridges were unsuitable for heavy loads, the workshops had antiquated machinery and the signalling system was inflexible.

He'd regained consciousness in daylight, in an alleyway filled with antiquated machinery.

The plants were starved of investment in the 1980's, when G.M. was pouring billions of dollars into assembly-plant robots, and have antiquated machinery as a result.

With doctrinal correctness, the artist renders all kinds of complicated, seemingly antiquated, machinery.

The staff of the nuclear production complex deserves credit for keeping the antiquated machinery going year after year without catastrophe.