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Early Cromwell Mk. 2 mounted on the maker's cast-iron cabinet stand

The large diameter, coarse-pitch leadscrew

Alternative top slides appear to have been offered-- some machines being found, as shown, with one identical to the type, with exposed slideways and two T-slots, used by Boley on their pre-WW2 Model 3L and 4L lathes. Other lathes had an entirely different arrangement with covered ways and a single T-slot.

Changewheel and pick-off gear storage was on neat spiders

Cromwell Mk. 2 Screwcutting Charts


	Sliding feed chart

Engraved degree scale for rotating the top slide. On some lathes this casting part was in iron, on others bronze

Underside of the top slide. Whilst a normal V-edge was used, with a gib strip, instead of the base casting being flanged for the upper casting to run on this unit was highly unusual in employing the roof of the upper casting instead.

Countershaft motor bracket. The whole of the countershaft drive system was very heavily built.

A contrast in fortunes: whilst the reversing switch facia (above) was over-engineered in cast bronze - an astonishing waste of money - that for the on/off switch (below) appears to have been in ZAMAK.


	E-Mail Tony@lathes.co.uk Home Machine Tool Archive Machine Tools For Sale & Wanted Machine Tool Manuals Machine Tool Catalogues Belts CROMWELL LATHE Mk. 2 previous page Additional Mk. 2 Photographs Cromwell Home Page Mk. 1 Cromwell Plain Lathe Smallpiece Multi-cut Lathe Mk. 2 Screwcutting Cromwell