Above: the earliest known publicity photograph of a Boxford, this 1948 Model C has 3-step flat belt drive to the headstock, no headstock or countershaft belt-run guards, a tailstock held to the bed by a simple vertical bolt through the clamp plate and the electrical switch on the headstock-end bed foot. The countershaft is of the integral type, fastened to the back of the lathe and mounted on slider rails with a push/pull screw the hexagon head of which can be seen protruding through the front of the bed foot. The collet tray clamped to the bed at the headstock end hold not only the collets but the draw tube, spindle insert adaptor and spindle-thread protector.
On the very first examples the lathe was fastened to the stand by two in-line bolts that passed upwards into the aluminium bed feet. The next version, as shown immediately below, used three bolts with two being set across the bed and passing through a flange on the inner face of the foot - with the other on the foot's centre line. The final type, and found on most machines, was a simpler arrangement of two bolts - one at the front and the other at the rear of each foot.

Early Boxford Model A with screwcutting gearbox and power cross feed. By the early 1950 the belt runs were completely guarded, the tailstock had a captive locking handle working though a cam and the electrical switch had been moved from the bed foot to a more convenient and safer position on a bracket bolted to the headstock.

Mk. 2 AUD with screwcutting gearbox, power sliding and surfacing feeds, single-lever engagement of backgear and a spindle lock button.

Mk. 2 headstock with a single lever to engage and disengage backgear. For safety the lever could be locked down with a Allen screw and was also connected to a micro-switch that cut the power if the handle was moved whilst the spindle was turning.

Virtually unchanged since it's introduction in the 1930s on the South Bend 9-inch, the power-feed apron has proved capable of a long, trouble-free life

Another reliable component unaltered from first to last the screwcutting gearbox had neither hardened gear nor oil-bath lubrication.