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Set so that the cross slide was to the left of its centre line, the saddle was hand scraped to fit the bed but, unlike the "general-purpose" Junior models had plain wings bereft of T-slots.
With hand-scraped ways, the compound slide rest assembly had a top slide with 3.75 inches of travel and able to be swivelled 30° each side of central. Of the short-length kind (probably intended to allow the fitting of a taper-turning attachment), the cross slide was fitted with a rear swarf guard to protect the feed. Both the top and cross slides were fitted with zeroing micrometer dials which, considering the capacity of the lathe, were on the small size.
Running in phosphor bronze bearings - these being bored in place by a jig attached to the bed - the headstock spindle was bored to allow the clear passage of work up to 1.5 inches in diameter. Finish ground, the spindle was made from a high tensile steel, lubricated by wick feed from reservoirs beneath each bearing and fitted with a ball-race thrust bearing. Bored with a No. 3 Morse taper socket, the spindle was supplied with sleeve adapter that stepped this down to a No.2 Morse. All the rotating headstock parts were dynamically balanced, the makers stating that this would allow spindle speeds of up to 2000 r.p.m.; however, for practical purposes, at 1289 r.p.m., the top speed was much lower with the full range (driven by the recommended 1 h.p. motor)  being, in backgear, 128, 169 and 224 r.p.m. and in direct drive 690, 946 and 1280 r.p.m.
Drive came from a countershaft bolted to the bed at the back of the headstock, the 1.5-inch wide final-drive belt running over three-step pulleys. Instead of a proper right-and-left-hand-threaded turn-buckle and over-centre lever to lock the belt tight, on early versions at least, the weight of the motor alone sufficed for this purpose.
Fitted with a No. 2 Morse taper spindle (rather small for the class of lathe) the tailstock could be set-over on its base plate for the turning of a slight taper; like nearly all lathes from the period, a small reservoir was provided to hold (highly poisonous) white lead, this being applied to the Morse taper centre by dipper rod. Whilst the tailstock was locked to the bed by a quick action lever working a cam-lifted locking plate, unfortunately, the spindle was clamped tight by a slot, cut into the casting being closed down by a screw; a poor system and one that nearly always results in a fractured casting after a long period of use.
A reasonable amount of equipment was supplied with each new Venus lathe including a 4-way toolpost, fixed and travelling steadies,  faceplate, a pair of hardened centres, a headstock step-down sleeve and belts for the countershaft drive-but no electric motor or switchgear.