The Moody lathe was a South Bend 9-inch copy manufactured by machine-tool makers Matthew Moody & Sons of Terrebonne in Quebec, Canada. This example shown below had the swing increased to 11 inches and a distinctly-different headstock assembly with the front face fully enclosed (and so stiffened) with the large-bore spindle running in roller races. Whilst the headstock was a marked improvement over the "9-inch" the remainder of the design, apart from those changes necessary to compensate for the increased centre height and weight, looks to have been very much left alone. The saddle, cross slide and top slide castings were increased in thickness - necessary to raise the cutting tool to the correct height - and the idler and leadscrew gears in the changewheel train were both increased in diameter, a change that allowed a finer rate of carriage feed. The tailstock and carriage handwheels had a rather delicate appearance but were in cast iron - though with very little machining to clean them up. One improvement was the use of a clevis end on the changewheel guard support arm, a modification that would have prevented the  recurring tendency of the original to flop down as the metal packing around its mounting pin compacted. Even the frustratingly-small micrometer dials of the original were retained - as well as the square-headed nut for the saddle clamp, the exact shape of the leadscrew clasp-nut lever and the tumble-reverse lever with its inconvenient bolt instead of spring-indexed location. One interesting modification by Moody was the scrapping of the very short bed feet used by South Bend and their replacement by much longer items along the lines of those long-used used on the ubiquitous American 10-inch atlas.
If you have a Moody lathe of any type the writer would be pleased to hear from you.