Badged as the Junior, this is a 3" x 12" Portass lathe from the 1920s or early 1930s. However, uncertainty exists as to whether this model was ever offered under the company's own brand name - or sold only though a third party: for example, by a large tool distributor, a Department store (Gamages in London sold an almost identical model with their own name cast in) or even as part of another lathe manufacturers' range. Of a simpler, much cheaper plain-turning type, the "Junior" was identical in general form to the Portass sold as a backgeared and screwcutting Zyto, even to the single swivelling top slide - though without a T-slotted top to the saddle.