The English Wheel, also known as a wheeling machine in Britain, is typically a manually operated metalworking apparatus, (used in car restoration, racing car construction - especially, NASCAR spaceframe chassis racing cars that have to have sheet metal panels made to resemble mass production vehicles, and aviation amongst other uses), that allows a craftsman to form smooth, compound curves from flat sheets of metal, such as aluminum or mild steel. When used on thicker sheet metals such as boat or ship hulls the machine may be powered and be much larger than the one described here.