comprises a coil guide feed head 38 having one end of each of a plurality of elongated parallel tube members 40 said tube members being arranged circumferentially around the coil guide head 38 the plurality of tubes 40 are held in spaced relationship by a number of mounting plates 42 44 and 46 then each of these mounting plates is suspended by hanger means 48 50 and 52 respectively from a framework 54 a coil forming apparatus 56 is shown in fig4 and is substantially identical to the coil forming apparatus 14 of fig1 the coil forming apparatus 56 may be one of several used to feed coiled wire 58 into each of the tubes 40 each coil forming apparatus receives its wire stock 60 from a wire dispensing spool apparatus generally indicated by reference character 62 it might be desirable to have a coil forming apparatus such as 56 for feeding each of the tubes 40 simultaneouly naturally coil stock may be purchased separately and fed into the tubes since the coil forming operating is not an essential part of the winding apparatus 10 the winding apparatus 36 generally comprises a platform means 64 having an upper track surface 66 which is substantially parallel to the tube bundle 40 of the coil guide means 34 a trolley apparatus generally indicated by reference character 68 is reciprocally disposed on the track surface 66 and is provided with a drive motor 70 and connecting drive chain 72 the trolley apparatus 68 comprises a mandrel gripping chuck 74 which may be rotationally driven by a separate drive motor 76 carried by the trolley 68 the chuck 74 is positioned to be in substantially coaxial alignment with the coil guide feed head 38 for a.