Also branded as the HTC, the Brenco was retailed through at least one mainstream machinery dealer, H.P. Gregory, of Sydney, and also from McEwan's hardware in Bourke Street, Melbourne (the sale of a Brenco in 1947 has been traced to the latter). It is not known for certain if "Brenco" was the manufacturer, an importer or another agent. However, the same company, originally of  Footscray, Victoria, Australia (an industrial area noted for machine-tool building), may exist today - with very brief details of their history still available online.
Offered from the late 1940s into the mid-1950s (when such small and relatively inexpensive lathes were in great demand) the HTC/Brenco had a centre height of 23/8" and took around 8 inches between centres. The lathe was designed along lines not dissimilar to early Portass/Eclipse models with a hand-turned, over-hung V-thread leadscrew driving a simple carriage topped by a single swivelling toolslide. However, for such a simple lathe, both the headstock and tailstock casting (the latter looking like a Buck Rogers death-ray pistol) were unusually heavy. The top of the V-edged bed, instead of having the usual separate front and rear top ways, was machined as a continuous surface - like that on the Myford ML10 and the high-class Hardinge HLV. With a gap in the bed, the lathe could swing a disc of metal 6 inches in diameter and 2 inches thick.
Headstock bearings were of the simple, split-parallel type - the spindle running direct in the cast iron of the headstock - and closed down by screws at the back. Although running in the cast iron - and not a bronze bush - while this saved time and money for the maker, it was a common application on lathes of this type and entirely suitable - the free graphite in the iron meaning that such assemblies hardly ever wear out. Thousands of South Bend 9-inch lathes used the system, as did the early Myford ML10. A 3-step pulley was fitted for drive by either a round leather rope or a small V-belt.
While one owner reports that, while he could find no casting faults in any of the machined surfaces of the bed, both the saddle and tool post slides did several of blow holes.