Abstract: A tap transport device is used in combination with a thread-cutting machine having a chuck adapted to hold a workpiece to be threaded and to rotate this workpiece about a threading axis. The tap transport device comprises a support frame adjacent the machine on which a carrier is displaceable in a first direction transverse to the threading axis. A workpiece feed gripper and a workpiece removal gripper are mounted on the carrier and hydraulic cylinders are provided for opening and closing these grippers and thereby grasping and releasing a workpiece. A magazine is provided on the support frame spaced in the first direction from the threading axis for holding a plurality of unthreaded workpieces and feeding these workpieces to the workpiece feed gripper.