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As a point of interest, if you find a Corbett's XL 4-inch centre height lathe like the ones below, some will have the Winfield name crudely chiselled off, while others have cast-in Corbett's lettering and proper maker's name plates in place. A known example of this type, a Granville XL 41/4" x 20", has paperwork confirming its sale in 1950, indicating that Winfield either had surplus parts to dispose of or their commercial failure (or cessation of production) happened well before the formal winding-up of the enterprise in 1952. Interestingly, some of these XL lathes appear to have used the older style of Winfield headstock with the backgear clustered against the front spindle bearing (instead of being spaced across the length of the headstock) yet have a much superior carriage assembly (with a wide and long cross slide) looking very much as though it was copied from the Pools Special (see the example shown below). A small vertical and horizontal miller was also produced (in what must have been very limited numbers) with a dovetail top to the column to mount the heads and overarm, and a side-mounted V-belt drive countershaft..
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