A.E.Herbert Pty. Ltd. were located in Birmingham Street, Alexandria (a suburb of Sydney). Their products included capstan lathes, a 1.25" capacity backgeared drilling machine and various wood lathes. In the Sydney Morning Herald for the 22nd of March, 1952,  they advised that: The famous A.E.Herbert 0.75" and 1.25" capacity capstan lathes are again available for early delivery. In the same paper on 25th of February, 1948 an advertisement (not by the Company) offered: an A.E.Herbert automatic lathe, 0.75" capacity, practically new. Interestingly, the copy used the full Company name, no doubt to distinguish the machine from the similar ones made by Alfred Herbert Limited (Coventry, England) whose Australian subsidiary Alfred Herbert (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. imported a comprehensive selection of the parent Company's products. Alfred Herbert capstan lathes were made in Melbourne during WW2 by A. G. Healing Ltd., a well-known manufacturer of radios, radars, and related test equipment. An example of a Healing lathe survives in the collection of Museum Victoria (Melbourne) with some interesting photographs and notes here.
If you have a Herbert lathe, the writer would be interested to hear from you.