The compound slide rest was beautifully made with hardened and ground Acme-form feed screws running in hardened-steel bearings (the long top slide with a bearing at each end) with adjustable, hardened and ground steel thrust shoulders and long, bronze nuts. The micrometer dials could be zeroed - and read to 0.001" if your eyesight was good enough - for, like those fitted to so many lathes of their era, they were far too small.

The tailstock, which had a base hand-scraped to exact alignment with the headstock, carried a hardened and ground barrel fitted with a zeroing micrometer dial, finely-engraved ruler markings and the usual (and inadequate) No. 1 Morse-taper centre. The feed screw was Acme form, ran in a bronze nut and acted as a "self-eject" when it was drawn back far enough to hit the end of the centre. The barrel was made long enough so that, even when extended to the maximum of its 3-inch travel, it was still fully supported within the main casting. The locking clamp was of the internal compression-barrel type, designed to minimise any spindle deflection as it was tightened.

The "half-open" tailstock was a traditional accessory for Precision Bench Lathes and was widely used in factories and workshops for the type of semi-mass production process which required only light machining operations.
The top of the casting was open to facilitate rapid changes of spindle, of which a set would be kept by the machine, each equipped with a different tool; the spindles could be pushed by hand or assisted by a lever.

The standard screw-feed tailstock could be converted to lever operation in a few minutes. A screw-adjustable length stop was fitted to assist in repetition production work.