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Guilliet & Fils - France
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180 mm centre height Tour a Pédale a Bois.
The Guilliet & Fils designers might have done a better job of the company's only lightweight, treadle-powered lathe if they had removed some material from the oversize tailstock casting and included it in the rim of the hopelessly inadequate "flywheel"…...

An interesting "Oval-turning" chuck with fittings to secure the wood in various ways. The device was quite different to an "eccentric-turning" chuck and worked, presumably, along the lines of those fitted to ornamental-turning lathes where a central boss, running concentrically with the headstock spindle, carried (in this case) a cross arm which was used to limit the travel of a free-to-move ring which carried the workpiece.

Independent headstock, toolrest and tailstock units were sold for fitting to the customer's own beds. Two different types of headstock were available: a conventional, 3-speed flat belt type (above) designed to be run from a countershaft and a fast-and-loose type (below) which, whilst having only one speed, allowed the spindle to be quickly stopped and started.
Four different centre heights were manufactured: Model TR 400 mm, Model TS 320 mm, Model TT 250 mm and the Model TU 180 mm.


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