Two drive systems were offered: the first was used in conjunction with what appears to have been a quite ordinary sheet-steel Boxford cabinet stand fitted with a rear-drive countershaft. However, there the similarity ended, for instead of plain bearings, the countershaft spindle ran in roller races and the two-step V-belt drive from the motor was fitted with pulleys whose steps were widely different in size - the larger of the pair on the countershaft appearing to be greater in diameter than that on the pulley. The result was a speed range that (assuming a 1425 r.p.m. motor) must have run up to beyond 2800 r.p.m.