Swift V6: a lathe that appears to have been an almost completely new design (with the probable exception of the screwcutting gearbox) this 1948 Swift lathe featured a carriage which could be moved not only by a separate power shaft but also independently by an electric working through a bevel box which picked up the drive also used by the hand-traverse mechanism. The newer design of stronger, self-eject tailstock is also evident; its ordinary handwheel, which replaced the mighty capstan bars previously employed, looks in comparison, rather puny.