Broaching machine compound shuttle

A compound shuttle for a broaching machine having a plurality of spaced parallel broach trains secured to the face of a common slide which is reciprocable in stationary ways in forward and reverse passes past a work-piece, comprising, a first shuttle table, a support structure in which said first shuttle table is slidably mounted in a plane parallel to the face of said slide, a second shuttle table on which said work-piece is fixed slidably mounted on said first shuttle table in a plane transverse to said first plane, means for positioning said first shuttle table from a first fixed position wherein said work-piece is axially aligned with one of said broach trains to a second fixed position wherein the work-piece is axially aligned with another one of said broach trains and means for positioning said second shuttle table from a first fixed position wherein the work-piece is in the path of a broach train during forward passes of the slide to a second fixed position wherein the work-piece is out of the paths of the broach trains during reverse passes of the slide.