With a 2-inch centre height and around 9-inches between centres the Hector lathe was made (or marketed) by the Wexler Machine Tools of Norfolk. Wexler were a concern who may, at one time, have been involved with (or succeeded) the Perris Company - itself a descendent of firms involved in the manufacture of the Flexispeed,  Simat, Meteor, Norfolk, Perris and then Cowells lathe--the latter still in production today.
Although the general design of the Hector departs from the usual Flexispeed/Simat design the compound slide rest is almost certainly that used on the Perris including a high-quality cast bronze handwheel on the full-length, T-slotted cross slide, neat micrometer dials and correctly formed finger grips - though the feed screw threads were simple and inexpensive Whit-form and not the more suitable Acme or square. The flat-topped, cast-iron bed was decently wide, well braced with cross webs and mounted a rigid, box-section headstock with the spindle running in ball races.
Unusually for a British-built miniature lathe a built-on motor was supplied  (complete with integrated switchgear) driving to a pulley overhung on the end of the headstock spindle. Although some versions appear to have been fitted with only one speed, another was offered with an intermediate jockey pulley that gave four of  240, 700, 900 & 2200 r.p.m. It is also believed that a 2-speed motor (probably sourced from a sewing machine) may have been offered as an option. No screwcutting or power feed was provided -  instead but the carriage was driven up and down the bed by a micrometer-dial-equipped handwheel turning a Whitworth-threaded leadscrew. Unfortunately,  as there was release for the leadscrew nut - and hence no quick-action rack-feed for the carriage - much twirling of the handwheel was necessary to advance and retract the cutting tool. The Hector can only have been made in very limited numbers and, if any reader has an example, or further information about the company,  the writer would be interested to hear from them.