"Improved Forming Lathe" fitted with an elevating slide with adjustable tool holders.
The smaller handwheel controlled the slide's rise and fall.

A standard 20" "Improved" Forming lathe with a lever-action tailstock  (fitted with what Meriden called their "Almond" Turret) a Forming Tool Slide and a "Wire Feed" mechanism. The lathe was described as suitable for the manufacturers of Lamps, Brass Bedsteads, table or Clock Case Trimmings - being designed to turn out Screws, Nipples, Acorns, Knobs, Tips, etc. up to 1 inch in diameter - which would pass through the headstock spindle.
By using the slides in a conventional forming way jobs could be done up to 51/4" in diameter - and used as a "centre" lathe work up to 18 inches in diameter could be turned using the slide rest, or by hand.