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Makers of "Bench Precision" Lathes

- plain-turning lathes intended for toolmaking and light production work -

Links on lathes.co.uk to some makers of plain-turning, precision bench lathes. These lathes all lacked conventional
screwcutting by a changewheel-driven leadscrew (though some had, as an option, a screwcutting feed to the top slide)
and could be arranged in three basic ways:
1) - with a screw-feed compound slide rest as lathe for use by a toolmaker simple
but very accurate one-off work
2) - as a “second-operation” lathe equipped, usually, with the slide rest and tailstock fitted
with lever operation
3) - as a full-blown production lathe in which case the usual fitting would have been a
bed-mounted indexing capstan unit and lever operation of the collet closer.
Depending upon the job in hand, any combination of the above arrangements could be used and the so lathe’s versatility best exploited. Of course, exceptions to
the definition of a “Bench Precision Lathe” existed with some makers, including Boley and Lorch, offering plain-turning versions of otherwise screwcutting
models while others, such as Schaublin, always distinguished between the types and had dedicated models for each application.

America
http://www.lathes.co.uk/ames
http://www.lathes.co.uk/bausch&lomb
http://www.lathes.co.uk/bottum
http://www.lathes.co.uk/cataract
http://www.lathes.co.uk/crystallakelathe/
http://www.lathes.co.uk/derbyshire
http://www.lathes.co.uk/elgin
http://www.lathes.co.uk/hardinge
http://www.lathes.co.uk/hjorth
http://www.lathes.co.uk/levin
http://www.lathes.co.uk/nichols
http://www.lathes.co.uk/pearce
http://www.lathes.co.uk/potter
http://www.lathes.co.uk/pratt&whitney
http://www.lathes.co.uk/remington
http://www.lathes.co.uk/rivett
http://www.lathes.co.uk/sawyer
http://www.lathes.co.uk/sloan&chace
http://www.lathes.co.uk/stark
http://www.lathes.co.uk/stehman-jenks-stehman
http://www.lathes.co.uk/UND
http://www.lathes.co.uk/vannorman
http://www.lathes.co.uk/wade
http://www.lathes.co.uk/waltham

Of other known US makers few details survive,
these including: Ballou (sometimes found badged as
"Waterhouse Electric & Mfg. Co”.), Ballou & Whitcombe,
Engineering Appliance Co. (Jamestown, N.Y.)
Fenn-Sadler, and the "Cosa Corporation of New York"

Canada
http://www.lathes.co.uk/cowan/page2.html

England
http://www.lathes.co.uk/allanson
http://www.lathes.co.uk/benson
http://www.lathes.co.uk/BWC
http://www.lathes.co.uk/beswick (C.H. Joyce)
http://www.lathes.co.uk/claudiusash
http://www.lathes.co.uk/cromwell
http://www.lathes.co.uk/CVA/page2.html
http://www.lathes.co.uk/george-adams
http://www.lathes.co.uk/holbrook
http://www.lathes.co.uk/millen
http://www.lathes.co.uk/newall
http://www.lathes.co.uk/pultra/page9.html
http://www.lathes.co.uk/smart-and-brown-model-L
http://www.lathes.co.uk/stedall
http://www.lathes.co.uk/tlm/
http://www.lathes.co.uk/vidal
http://www.lathes.co.uk/woodhouse-mitchell-precision/

France
http://www.lathes.co.uk/amsa (?)
http://www.lathes.co.uk/are
http://www.lathes.co.uk/cmp
http://www.lathes.co.uk/codima
http://www.lathes.co.uk/crouzet/page3.html
http://www.lathes.co.uk/hure (on the Hure millers page)
http://www.lathes.co.uk/jenny
http://www.lathes.co.uk/marf
http://www.lathes.co.uk/precis
http://www.lathes.co.uk/prudor
http://www.lathes.co.uk/record-lathe-france (Suspected to be French but not confirmed)
http://www.lathes.co.uk/sombv
http://www.lathes.co.uk/universo
http://www.lathes.co.uk/venot
JCH – no details yet…

Germany
http://www.lathes.co.uk/Lorch (Lorch Schmidt)
http://www.lathes.co.uk/auerbach
http://www.lathes.co.uk/benzinger
http://www.lathes.co.uk/boley
http://www.lathes.co.uk/hommel
http://www.lathes.co.uk/karger
http://www.lathes.co.uk/kuhlmann
http://www.lathes.co.uk/leinen/page3.html
http://www.lathes.co.uk/morat
http://www.lathes.co.uk/pittler
http://www.lathes.co.uk/rambold
http://www.lathes.co.uk/rebmann
http://www.lathes.co.uk/roth
http://www.lathes.co.uk/saacke
http://www.lathes.co.uk/saupe
http://www.lathes.co.uk/see (FSB)
http://www.lathes.co.uk/scherzinger
http://www.lathes.co.uk/unispan
http://www.lathes.co.uk/weiler/page3.html
http://www.lathes.co.uk/weisser
http://www.lathes.co.uk/wolfjahn/page4.html
http://www.lathes.co.uk/zwm
CZH - of unknown original, though possibly from the former East Germany

Hungary
http://www.lathes.co.uk/csepel/

Japan
http://www.lathes.co.uk/riken
http://www.lathes.co.uk/toyo
http://www.lathes.co.uk/arrow
http://www.lathes.co.uk/eguro/page2.html
http://www.lathes.co.uk/newalto/

Switzerland
http://www.lathes.co.uk/agathon
http://www.lathes.co.uk/breguet
http://www.lathes.co.uk/carstens (branded "Swisten" in the UK)
http://www.lathes.co.uk/dan (Christen)
http://www.lathes.co.uk/dixilathe
http://www.lathes.co.uk/habegger
http://www.lathes.co.uk/hauser-lathe
http://www.lathes.co.uk/juvenia
http://www.lathes.co.uk/lambercier
http://www.lathes.co.uk/meytre
http://www.lathes.co.uk/mikron
http://www.lathes.co.uk/schaublin
http://www.lathes.co.uk/scherzinger
http://www.lathes.co.uk/simonet
http://www.lathes.co.uk/stb (Suspected to be Swiss but not confirmed)
http://www.lathes.co.uk/voumard