Makers of "Bench Precision" Lathes

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- plain-turning lathes intended for toolmaking and light production work -

Links on lathes.co.uk to some makers of plain-turning, precision bench lathes. These lathes all lacked conventional
screwcutting by a changewheel-driven leadscrew (though some had, as an option, a screwcutting feed to the top slide)
and could be arranged in three basic ways:
1) - with a screw-feed compound slide rest as lathe for use by a toolmaker simple
but very accurate one-off work
2) - as a “second-operation” lathe equipped, usually, with the slide rest and tailstock fitted
with lever operation
3) - as a full-blown production lathe in which case the usual fitting would have been a
bed-mounted indexing capstan unit and lever operation of the collet closer.
Depending upon the job in hand, any combination of the above arrangements could be used and the so lathe’s versatility best exploited. Of course, exceptions to
the definition of a “Bench Precision Lathe” existed with some makers, including Boley and Lorch, offering plain-turning versions of otherwise screwcutting
models while others, such as Schaublin, always distinguished between the types and had dedicated models for each application.

America
http://www.lathes.co.uk/ames
http://www.lathes.co.uk/bausch&lomb
http://www.lathes.co.uk/bottum
http://www.lathes.co.uk/cataract
http://www.lathes.co.uk/crystallakelathe/
http://www.lathes.co.uk/derbyshire
http://www.lathes.co.uk/elgin
http://www.lathes.co.uk/hardinge
http://www.lathes.co.uk/hjorth
http://www.lathes.co.uk/levin
http://www.lathes.co.uk/nichols
http://www.lathes.co.uk/pearce
http://www.lathes.co.uk/potter
http://www.lathes.co.uk/pratt&whitney
http://www.lathes.co.uk/remington
http://www.lathes.co.uk/rivett
http://www.lathes.co.uk/sloan&chace
http://www.lathes.co.uk/stark
http://www.lathes.co.uk/stehman-jenks-stehman
http://www.lathes.co.uk/UND
http://www.lathes.co.uk/vannorman
http://www.lathes.co.uk/wade
http://www.lathes.co.uk/waltham

Of other known US makers few details survive,
these including: Ballou (sometimes found badged as
"Waterhouse Electric & Mfg. Co”.), Ballou & Whitcombe,
Engineering Appliance Co. (Jamestown, N.Y.), Sawyer Watch Tool Co.,
Fenn-Sadler, and the "Cosa Corporation of New York"

Canada
http://www.lathes.co.uk/cowan/page2.html

Japan
http://www.lathes.co.uk/riken
http://www.lathes.co.uk/toyo
http://www.lathes.co.uk/arrow
http://www.lathes.co.uk/eguro/page2.html
http://www.lathes.co.uk/newalto/