Manufactured in the late 1940s and early 1950s the Brenco lathe was advertised as a 23/8" centre height machine suitable for the model engineer and retailed through at least one mainstream machinery dealer, H.P. Gregory, of Sydney. Although labelled "Brenco" it is not known if this was the manufacturer, or a selling agent. However, the same company, originally of  Footscray, Victoria, Australia (an industrial area noted for machine-tool building), may exist today - with very brief details of their history available here.
With the chrome plating on the handwheels looking to be original, the lathe could have been built at any time between the late 1920s  (when chrome first became cheaply and commercially available) and the mid 1950s. Of approximately 2.125-inch centre height, and 10 inches between centres, the lathe was designed along lines not dissimilar to early Portass models with a hand-turned, over-hung V-thread leadscrew driving a simple carriage topped by a single swivelling toolslide. However, for such a simple lathe, both the headstock and tailstock casting (the latter looking like a Buck Rogers death-ray pistol) were unusually heavy. The top of the V-edged bed, instead of having separate front and back ways, was machined as a continuous surface - like that on the Myford ML10 and the rather better-class Hardinge HLV....
Headstock bearings were the simple split parallel type, closed down by screws at the back, and a 3-step pulley was fitted for drive by a round rope.
If any reader has more information about "Brenco" machine tools or the early days of the company, the writer would be interested to hear from you.