Fitted with a contemporary chuck (with dangerous, protruding pinion screws) and mounted on
the original treadle stand this fine example lacks only a set of changewheels. Very similar to the other example shown below (with the screwcutting chart on the front face of the bed, this version lacks tumbler reverse

Found in Australia, could this be a very early version of the small Colchester as built in that country? Note the row of three bed-foot bracing bars (just like the early Drummond lathe) yet fitted (like other versions of the Colchester) with a mixture of a dog-clutched leadscrew on the front of the bed and an unbraced, swing headstock. The lathe carries no markings save for, on the back of the bed, a stencil of a tree and three digits, the first two of which cannot be read
Centre height is 89 mm (3.5 inches)
Swing in gap 200 mm (8-inches)
Bed width 88.7 mm, rear way width 28.3 mm. front way width 27.77 mm and between the ways 32.31 mm.
Leadscrew is 4 t.p.i.
Spindle 25.4 mm OD
Spindle thread 1" x 8 t.p.i.
Spindle register 29.5 mm
Spindle taper is MT1
Spindle bore is + 8" deep blind