S.A.M.O.A. Société des Machines Outils et Accessoires (Machine Tools and Accessories Company) are known to have built a number of lathes, but are these rare, even in their native land.
Shown below is a 125 x 800 mm under-driven S.A.M.O.A. lathe from what would almost certainly have been the 1950s. Of conventional layout and weighing between 400 and 500 kg, the lathe was heavily built and carried on a massive, all-cast-iron stand. Running in antifriction bearings, the 20 mm bore spindle carried a 4-step V-pulley with drive coming from a belt-drive countershaft (that used needle roller bearings) held within the headstock-end plinth. A total of 16 speeds was available, these being produced by a motor fitted with a 2-step pulley (to give high and low speed ranges) the 4-step headstock drive and backgear - the range likely to have been - from an estimate of the various pulley diameters -  a useful span from 25 to 1500 r.p.m.
Screwcutting was by changewheels, the drive passing through a conventional tumble-reverse assembly to drive a leadscrew and a separate shaft (which looks to have had an automatic knock-off stop fitted) to provide sliding and surfacing feeds.
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