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Benson Benli precision backgeared and screwcutting lathe. Note the great depth of the flat-topped, V-edged way bed

Fully machined apron - this example is missing the power feeds' selector lever

The saddle was gibbed to the bed by a tapered wedge - the adjustment point being by a screwed rod and locknuts

To provide an extra-fine feed to the power shaft, the operator could arrange for the drive to be by a flat belt from a pulley carried (rather ingeniously), not on the headstock spindle but on a shaft geared down from it

Tumble-reverse mechanism with spring-loaded indent plunger

Tapered spindle nose with locating keyway

Hole through spindle

Tailstock: located by opposed sunken V-ways running down the bed's centre line

Taper-turning unit

Taper-turning unit: degree set-over graduations

Remains of the original countershaft unit: the claws carried self-adjusting bearing housing - exactly like those employed on the 10-inch Atlas lathe

Collet draw-bar

Benson collet

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