Ideal machines for the more ambitious home-machinist, the 9 and 10-inch Standard Modern "Utilathe" models were distinctly different.  While most manufacturers would have been content to add one half-inch to the centre height and proclaim a new model, Standard Modern ensured that the larger of their two utility models was very much more heavily built than the smaller. Almost certainly dating from the late 1940s, the designs incorporated a number of desirable features, prominent amongst which were: an all geared headstock; a motor mounted on the rear of the headstock with drive in by V-belt; a very deep and wide bed with its V and flat ways arranged to pass in front of and behind the headstock so that the carriage could have its cross slide set centrally - yet still reach the spindle nose and (on the 10-inch) a camlock spindle nose.
Oddly, the 9-inch had a twin-tumbler screwcutting gearbox with a choice of 48 pitches and feeds but the 10-inch, with a single-tumbler unit, was restricted to 30. However, as compensation the 10-inch had its power-feeds driven by a separate shaft, the internal gearing for which gave a somewhat deeper range..

The very handy geared-head 9-inch "Utilathe"

A good spindle-speed range and a full screwcutting and feeds gearbox