The same geared-headstock assembly used on the round-bed lathe was also employed on a conventional V-edged flat bed machine that had the option of a hand-cranked drive instead of an electric motor and V-belt pulley -  both the unusual Verschoyle and 'Damaco 5' lathes being fitted with a similar arrangement. However, the height of the headstock on the Elf, and the adjustable position of the hand-crank, allowed it to be mounted anywhere on a bench instead of having to overlap the edge to let the handle swing around. However, unlike the motor-driven version, which had the larger of the two gears gear on the spindle driven from a small gear on the pulley input shaft, the hand-cranked model (in order to obtain a reasonable top speed) had the arrangement reversed in a manner not dissimilar to that employed on old-fashioned hand-driven bench grinders.