Early 1930s Elgin with ball-bearing headstock on the then-popular type of open stand with beech-wood top

Elgin accessories--single and (very rare) twin-spindle milling and grinding heads on vertical slides

An unusual fitting for a precision bench lathe--a completely independent drive for an "overhead" - to drive toolpost-mounted milling and grinding spindles

A circa 1920 Elgin with plain-bearing headstock--and fitted with a Wade compound slide rest; there being a good deal of  interchangeably of parts between the more common American producers of precision bench lathes: B.C.Ames, Hjorth, Potter  Pratt & Whitney, , Rivett, Stark, Wade, Waltham Machine Works, Wade,  Pratt & Whitney, Rivett, Cataract, Hardinge, Elgin,, Remington, Sloan & Chace,