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Britannia Lathe - late 1920s/early 1930s
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Thought to have been built from the late 1920s until the early 1930s this 4.5" x 30" gap-bed, backgeared and screwcutting showed some improvements over earlier models. Whilst it retained the maker's traditional long saddle and height-adjustable top slide it had a taper-roller bearing headstock, a very large diameter leadscrew and an unusually wide and heavily-built cross slide - that doubled as a boring table--driven by a screw fitted with a micrometer dial of a decent size. It must have been on of the company's last models constructed with a foot treadle and flywheel assembly, a type of drive system that was listed by many makers into the late 1930s - but seldom ordered.
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