At the top of this page are a number of extracts from a French-language catalogue 1910 and 1912 - and so showing the full range of "bench precision" lathes in the style as made from around 1890 to 1920. Apart from small changes in specification, and the availability of different accessories, the range also continued until the late 1920s when more major revisions were made, especially to the rigidity of the main castings. Towards the bottom of the page is an early and larger Lorch plain-turning precision lathe - identified by its spindle thrust bearing mounted on posts outboard of the left-hand spindle bearing and, of course, the obligatory wooden tool tray mounted on cast-iron supports behind the bed. This arrangement was common on many lathes of the 1800s but abandoned as the century drew to a close. The lathe - we shall call it (unofficially) an "Early Model A" - also has a cross slide with an unusually long travel, probably to enable the more efficient mounting of a high-speed milling and grinding spindles. While the stand is original - but perhaps less its original treadle-drive system - the spindle pulley has been changed from one to take a flat belt to a modern "A" section "V". If you have a catalogue showing this model, the writer would be please if you could make contact..