George Hatch were an English company who manufactured a range of lathes from simple but well-made plain-turning types for light-duty workshop and amateur use to heavier 7 and 8-inch models with backgear, screwcutting and power feeds.  Incredibly, their simple plain-turning lathe, obviously designed in the closing years of the 19th century, was still listed, despite its obvious limitations, some 40 years later in engineering suppliers' catalogues of the late 1930s. It was shown as being available in two version (both using the same length of bed) as either a 31/2" x 20" machine (252 lbs) or in a rather more substantial 41/2" x 18" (300 lbs) form mounted on stronger legs and with the flywheel increased in weight but not diameter. The bed ways were a single flat and V and the lathe was supplied as standard with a single adjustable T-holder with two lengths of rest; the non-graduated swivelling compound slide illustrated was an extra and would have accounted for a substantial extra cost over that of the basic lathe.
Running in a single bearing, the 3/8" bore headstock spindle had its left-hand end formed into a centre and supported against an adjustable, hardened pad. A choice of  light-duty round-leather "gut" or flat-belt drive was offered (the lathe illustrated has the former) with gut available only for treadle drive and the flat for either treadle or a power drive from a separate countershaft, with self-aligning bearings, supported on extension arms cast into the top rear of the bed legs.
Well engineered, the treadle system used a full-width axle running in bearings in both left and right hand legs and a long foot plate that could be operated by either leg.
Other George Hatch models included simple capstan, chasing and special-purpose lathes and a variety of associated engineering equipment. If you have a George Hatch lathe the writer would be pleased to hear from you..