Little-known, even in its native land, the Geneva-built E.Meytre precision bench lathe had a centre height of around 85 mm and a capacity between centres of perhaps 350 mm. Although looking to have a headstock spindle pulley of the A-section, V-belt type, this arrangement would not have been seen on a European-made small lathe until the early 1930s - belts of this type being introduced on small machines in the United States during 1932 on the  Atlas 9-inch. Hence, as the lathe looks to be of a design that would have been made during the 1920s, the drive would have been by a round leather belt - a "gut drive". Although fitted micrometer dials are fitted to both the cross and top-slide feed screws, these are tiny, and do not compare with the much larger ones fitted to the Schaublin 65 in the middle of that decade. In some respects the Meytre departs from traditional bench precision lathe practice: it is not as well finished as a Schaublin or Mikron; the bed is cast as one piece with the headstock and, instead of the usual flat-top with a bevelled-edge, has a raised V and flat. However, the top slide has the usual (and necessary) long travel associated with this class of lathe and the headstock spindle bearings are, likewise, of substantial size and almost certainly of the adjustable, double-taper type.
Have any other examples of the E.Meytre survived? If you have one, or another machine by the same company, the writer would be pleased to hear from you.