The Cross No. 20 Universal Miller, carefully styled to reflect the 1930's interest in "streamline" designs, was manufactured by a firm established in 1898 - the Cross Gear and Machine Company of 3250 Bellevue Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.
Only one table size was available, of 10.5" x 36", which was also its working area, with longitudinal, cross and vertical travels of 20", 9" and 16.5" respectively. The table and knee ways (the front of the knee was of a pleasingly clean design - and completely enclosed against the ingress of swarf and dirt) were all hand scraped and fitted with tapered gib strips - however, no table power feeds were fitted as standard  although a longitudinal feed, with four rates of 0.75" to 4.5" per minute, was offered at extra cost. All the micrometer dials zeroed and were positively locked by simple knurled-head through screws; the very best method - if properly designed.
The vertical head was mounted on the end of a round ram (which could moved  in and out through a range of 12 inches) and fastened to it by a simple "clevis" connection. This startlingly basic arrangement gave the head the ability to be positioned at any angle in any plane - although it cannot have been the most rigid of assemblies, and one wonders how much chatter was generated when the ram was fully extended and the machine working with a large cutter at its maximum rate of metal removal.
The head motor was either a 0.5 hp, 1200 rpm unit - which drove the spindle though a V belt at speeds of  350,  570,  890,  1510,  2360 and 3880 rpm - or a 1800 rpm version which offered 520,  855,  1335,  2265,  3540 and 5830 rpm. As an option, an epicyclic-type backgear assembly could be built into the spindle pulley and resulted in speeds of 104,  165,  320,  330,   515,  580,  1000,  1100,  1800 and 3400 rpm with the slower of the two motors - and 160,  250,  485,  500,  790,  880,  1530,  1650,  280 and 5250 with the faster.
The quill, with a No. 3 Morse taper or 30 International Standard nose fitting, had a travel of 4" and was controlled exclusively by a fine downfeed handwheel, there being no quick-action drill mechanism; the quill travel readout was in the form of a direct-reading counter in thousandths of an inch. The maximum clearance beneath the spindle nose was 16.5 inches.