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	Home Machine Tool Archive Machine Tools For Sale & Wanted E-MAIL Tony@lathes.co.uk "Union" Light Pattern Hand Lathes Photographs Graduate Home Page Jubilee Wood Lathe Serial Numbers Harrison Home Page Union Light & Screwcutting Lathes

An early Light Pattern 6-inch lathe--probably from the 1920s. Unlike the later models that used a "frictionless" chain drive from foot pedal to flywheel this version was equipped with a plain bushed rod

The headstock, with its small, coarse-threaded spindle nose and does not conform to the specification in the 1930 catalogues

Although this may not be the original treadle plate - changing the name in an easily-replaced parts was often done to ease marketing through larger dealers and distributors

Decorative flair but insufficient rigidity.

Instead of the commonly-used plain shaft to support the heavy flywheel Harrison employed a pair of ball bearings


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