Continued:
Lathe:
Of modest capacity, with just an 8" swing and 18" between-centres, lathe element of the Universal had an all-geared head that gave spindle speeds of 58, 92, 137, 198, 300, 470, 707 and 1020 rpm. driven by a 3 h.p., 1760 r.p.m. 3-phase motor. Surprisingly, the spindle had a bore of just 0.75", hardly adequate for the sort of work the machine might have been called upon to perform. A simplified screwcutting and feeds gearbox was fitted that offered a good range of threads between 4 and 100 t.p.i. Metric pitches were also available, but details of their inclusion into the gearbox, or of the necessary conversion set, are not known. A separate power shaft was used to provide sliding and surfacing feeds, so leaving the leadscrew exclusively for screwcutting.
Milling machine:
Of ingenious construction, but very limited in the size of work it could tackle, the milling machine had a vertical head built into the horizontal arbor support - it being a matter of simply swivelling it through 90° to bring it into operation. The working surface of the 6-speed power-driven table was 26" x 6" with a longitudinal travel of 10" a cross of 5.5" - and the knee able to be elevated through some 10". The No. 40 international spindle ran at 48 to 970 rpm in horizontal mode and from 77 to 1575 rpm when used vertically.
Grinding Machine:
Able to be swung 45 degrees clockwise and 15 degrees anti-clockwise, the universal grinding machine table was mounted parallel to the lathe bed and used the latter as mount for  its wheel head. Two gears connected the head to controls at the front of the machine. The maximum swing over the table was 7" and the largest job that could be accommodated was 6.5" in diameter and 10" long. For internal grinding - the maximum capacity was a hole 4-inches in diameter - with the wheel head being swivelled through 180 degrees to bring to the attachment to the front. Tool and cutter grinding was also possible, with a variety of attachments available including a special Universal Cutter Head to mount on the table in place of the standard workhead. Surface grinding was accomplished by mounting a platform on the standard table and attaching a magnetic chuck to it; an extension was also fitted to the standard wheel head to bring the stone forward and so increase its coverage. The coolant supply to the grinding head was a separate unit, designed (of course) to avoid contaminating the other coolant (supplied to lathe, miller and drill) with abrasive particles.
Drill:
Mounted at the back of the lathe's "headstock", the drill (with a maximum table capacity of 15" in diameter) had six speeds from 420 to 5000 r.p.m. with power supplied by a separate 0.5 hp motor. Unfortunately, the designer had specified a hopelessly inadequate No. 1 Morse taper in the quill, so restricting the machine to light-duty work only. Not what you want when faced with getting a 3/4-inch hole though 4-inch thick block of steel.
Before you rush out to find one of these beautifully-made machines for your 12' x 12' wooden-floored workshop, it is as well to bear in mind that they weigh a not inconsiderable 4000 lbs (1.78 tons) and enjoy little beyond the capacity of machine tools found in the average experimental and model-engineer's workshop. Even so, it must remain a tempting proposition.
Component parts of the smaller Universal machine can be seen here

Very much bigger, heavier and more useful than its smaller brother, the larger version of the Universal was 11' 6" long, approximately 3' 8" wide over the handles (with the milling table in its centre position) around 78-inches high and weighed in the region of five tons. The machine combined a sliding, surfacing screwcutting lathe, a universal milling machine, a sensitive drill, a universal grinding machine and a bench grinder with a built-in twist-drill grinding jig. A single 6 h.p. 3-phase motor was used to drive the lathe and universal milling machine with separate motors for the drill and grinder. Although the same motor was used by lathe and miller, their operation was entirely independent, though they did share the same drive gears within the headstock and slipping clutches to protect the feed mechanisms. However, when the grinding machine was in use, this prevented the lathe and miller from being used. Two suds pumps were provided, one for grinder and one for the other three machines. Oil reservoirs were used in abundance - for instance, it appears from an external examination that the feed screws for the milling table each ran in their own oil bath - and the machine was fitted with a pressure oil supply to the main headstock that incorporated a filter.
Lathe:
Cast with heavy diagonal braces between its walls, the V and flat-way lathe bed was very substantially constructed and of a useful size. The centre height was around 6 ½ inches with a small removal gap piece allowing an extra 4 inches or so on diameter to be turned. The distance between centres was approximately 48 inches and 9 spindle speeds of  21, 30, 45, 74, 106, 161, 244, 352, 533 rpm were available controlled by the juxtaposition of levers on the front face of the headstock.
A separate shaft drove the power sliding and surfacing feeds with the drive passing through a safety-overload clutch. Individual engagement levers, with reverse, were provided for both the feeds and the leadscrew - and handy adjustable stops fitted for the automatic disengagement of the longitudinal (sliding) feed. Fitted with a screwcutting gearbox able to provide a limited range of pitches: 3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 24 t.p.i. A set of changewheels was available to extend this range including a 63t metric translation wheel  - a useful precaution on a lathe used for emergency repairs. 12 rates of sliding and surfacing feed were available from 0.005 to 0.040" per rev sliding and from 0.0025" to 0.02" surfacing. Two unusual touches were the provision of a series drain holes in the valley of the rear V in the lathe bed and a cross-slide wiper with an overhanging protector.
Milling Machine:
Very heavily built, the milling-machine element was a proper "universal" - that is, a combined horizontal and vertical type with a three T-slot, 40" x 10" table able to be swung some 50^o either side of centre. 23" of longitudinal travel was provided, with 7" in cross traverse and 13" vertically (though it is possible that an alternative specification was alsom produced with slightly greater travels).
With a heavy-duty, 40 International taper the spindle had speeds that ran from 21 though 30, 45, 74, 106, 161, 244, 352 to a maximum of 533 r.p.m. Fittings were provided for a front brace support for the table and knee assembly and, at the right-hand end of the table, a take-off drive to operate a power-driven rotary table - the control for this were, very conveniently, built into the table power-feed arrangement with an attached feed-rate chart. In addition, the makers offered an ordinary dividing head and powered rack-cutting and slotting attachments.
Grinding Machine:
A complete, self-contained cylindrical/universal grinding machine was bolted in place parallel to and behind the lathe bed and carried just a Ryder badge. With a 10" swing over the bed and a maximum capacity between centres of 24", it provided the usual range of facilities including (with accessories) tool and cutter grinding and a limited surface grinding capacity. Although the table's reciprocating motion - 6.5 to 69 inches per minute - was mechanically driven, its gearbox was flexibly mounted to aid smoothness of power delivery. The wheelhead motor was rated at 3 h.p., that for the workhead 1/4 h.p. and for the table traverse 1.5 h.p.
Drilling Machine:
Although in post-WW2 years Adcock and Shipley stopped making drilling machines, in earlier decades that had offered a very wide range of heavy-duty types - and it was on this experience that Ryder drew when cooperating with the design.  Of very heavy construction the 15" x 20" T-slotted table was able to be elevated (by a telescopic screw) through some eighteen inches; the throat depth was twelve inches and a No. 3 Morse taper fitted in the quill. All-geared, with speeds from 85 to 1220 r.p.m., the drill was able to machine a 1.25" hole in mild steel. The 6-inch stroke of the spindle could be hand or power driven - the latter having 4 rates from 0.0055" to 0.0162" and engaged by pulling on the quick-feed capstan handles. Unfortunately, on the examples seen, the full-circle fine-feed handwheel did not carry a graduated micrometer collar.
Should you have a Universal with Adcock & Shipley or Ryder badges of either size, the writer would be very  interested to hear from you..

Vertical milling with the head-cum-overarm unit. The geared dividing head, shown playing its part in the production of a helical gear, was on the accessories' list.

The screwcutting lathe was not large, just an 8" swing by 18" capacity between-centres with 8 speeds of 58, 92, 137, 198, 300, 470, 707 and 1020 rpm. It was driven my a 3 HP 1760 r.p.m. 3-phase motor and had a 0.75" hole through the headstock.

The drill, with a maximum table capacity of 15" in diameter, was mounted at the back of the "headstock" and had six speeds from 420 to 5000 rpm supplied by a 0.5 hp motor. Unfortunately, the quill was fitted with only a No. 1 Morse taper, so severely restricting its capacity for heavy-duty work.

The wheel head of the grinding machine normally was stored at the end of the Universal Machine Tool in such a way that it could be used as an off-hand grinder.

Universal Grinding
In a perfect world this would be a valve from the engine of the chief engineer's Type 27 Bugatti being ground by combining the swivelling actions of the wheel head and work head. As the boat left Sydney new bevel gears would have being generated for the crankshaft to camshaft drive - and by Vancouver new gudgeon pins made.….

Surface grinding was accomplished by mounting a platform on the standard table and attaching a magnetic chuck to it; an extension was also fitted to the standard wheel head to bring the stone forward and so increase its coverage. 

The twist-drill grinding attachment being used with the grinding head mounted in its "stored" position on the end of the machine.