Carrying a screwed-on brass badge proclaiming "Greenwood Bros. Makers Halifax" this 6" x 40" backgeared and screwcutting lathe features a detachable gap to its bed and both power sliding and surfacing feeds. Almost certainly constructed in the 1920s or 1930s, the lathe is of absolutely conventional design for its era, perhaps only one slight difference being a robust, built-on countershaft. While the latter appears, at first glance, to be a later addition, the assembly is clearly a full casting, bolted to the back of the bed and fitted with what appears to be a pair of early-type plummer blocks.
The lathe has certainly been through the hands of a keen owner - perhaps the countershaft was his - with the cross-feed screw being carried on a light, home-made extension bracket to give the cross slide an increased travel and a leadscrew swarf guard fitted. The cross-feed screw also looks to be have been modified, its diameter being very much greater than that normally found on lathes of this age.
No trace remains of the Greenwood Brothers' enterprise; there are no references to the Company in the records of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, nor in the pages of the Engineering Magazine.