Individual drive from a headstock-mounted motor by a sort flat belt to the headstock input pulley
At first, drives were often arranged individually to suit a customer's particular preference, a choice being offered of flat belt from a factory's existing line-shafting or by a motor carried on top of the headstock or inside the headstock end bed-support plinth. With the motor attached to the lathe a variety of other systems could be ordered including by flat belt,  "silent chain" or through fibre gears - the 1920s being, after a decade or more of experimentation, a time of flux as makers struggled to come to terms with an increasing demand for machines tools that featured an integrated drive system. By the early 1930s the matter was solved by the introduction of reliable V-belts when, from small to large, lathes could be equipped with single or multiple pulleys to transmit the required 0.25 to 10 h.p. from motor to headstock

Apron with its separate, quick-action, over-centre engagement levers for the power sliding and surfacing feeds. Note the rather delicate proportions of the carriage handwheel

Rear of the apron showing the power-feed reversing mechanism. Oddly, in this art-worked illustration, the maker omitted to show the left-hand section of the leadscrew and its bevel gear….

Set-over tailstock with twin clamping bolts. The ball that can be seen in front of the spindle lock handle had a shaft that dipped into (poisonous) white lead to lubricate the centre

Countershaft listed for lathes with 14", 16", 18" and 20" swings. The two single right-hand pulleys ran in different directions and were locked to the shaft by toggle-operated clutches