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Waltham precision bench lathe headstock and tailstock

The end face of the largest diameter pulley carried three indexing rings with 48, 60 and 100 holes.

Pulley index marks clearly stamped into the headstock face. It is likely that rings with alternative numbers of holes would have been available

Simple split casting to lock the tailstock spindle. A fitting found on many precision bench lathes and a surprising one given that more effective "split-barrel" types were available

Tailstock graduations: the dial is marked at intervals of 0.005" and the spindle in tenths of an inch