The Balding "Beaver" 4.5" x 20" was a backgeared, screwcutting lathe of conventional but very strong construction, well specified and obviously designed to last. The spindle nose was 1.75" in diameter with a 4 Morse taper and able to pass a 1" diameter bar, whilst the gap bed  enabled a diameter of 25" inches to be turned.
Power cross feed was fitted as standard and the cross feed screw was of generous proportions being 0.5" in diameter and fitted with thrust bearings for facing in either direction; the nut was 1.25" long and was fitted with an unusually large (3") diameter micrometer dial - though strangely no dial was fitted to the top slide.
A T-slotted cross slide was standard and a pleasing touch was the use of a revolving horn sleeves on both the carriage traverse and tailstock barrel handles. The neat, all V-belt drive motor countershaft unit was built onto the back of the bed.
The changewheels (there was no gearbox option listed) were encased within neat cast-aluminium covers and employed a tumble-reverse mechanism to transmit their drive to the leadscrew.
If any reader owns one of these machines, or has any advertising or technical literature about them, the author would be very interested to hear from them.