Yet one more very interesting but mysterious "precision bench lathe" - almost certainly made in France. Nothing is know of the maker - indeed, it may not be a "CMD" as the writing on the bed is indistinct and it might be a "CMP". What is know is that both the headstock spindle and tailstock took W12 collets and, in addition to the lever-feed tailstock, a second push or screw-feed type was also supplied with the lathe.
The machine appears to have been set up for second-operation work with lever-control of the slide rest, tailstock and collet closer - though the levers are missing from the slides.
Although tall, built-on countershafts with the motor at the top have been used on backgeared and screwcutting lathes - for example some Sheldon, Dalton and larger South Bend models -  the CMD is probably unique in its class in following this arrangement. The entire, tall drive system was formed as part of the base casting, the electric motor being perched on top and driving downwards by a guarded V-belt to a layshaft with pulley on each side of a central bearing. From the layshaft, drive to the headstock was by an exposed flat belt running over 3-step cone pulleys, the aim being to give as smooth a drive as possible.
From the generous size of the headstock bearing housings, the spindle must have run in either ball or roller races and, lacking a threaded nose, took only draw-in collets - the surviving 65 mm 3-jaw ring-scroll chuck also being collet mounted.