Yet one more very interesting but mysterious "precision bench lathe". Almost certainly made in France, if the discovery rate continues at this place, France will move into the lead of countries with the greatest number of different makers.
With centre height of perhaps 125 mm and taking 500 mm between centres, the lathe has a particularly massive headstock and a compound slide rest assembly that looks suspiciously like a copy of that used on a Schaublin 102.
Precision plain turning lathes could, generally, be arranged to perform in the three distinct roles: toolmaker (as shown below), second-operation and production capstan. The toolmaker's type, intended for one-off precision jobs by a skilled turner, was equipped with a screw-feed compound slide and tailstock (and often a collet draw tube for collet holding), while the second-operation version (sometimes called a "finishing lathe") had slides, tailstock and collet closer driven by screws, quick-action levers- or a combination of the two. Production models were usually equipped with a bed-mounted 6-station capstan unit and had a choice of lever or screw-operated cut-off slide rests and a quick-action collet closer - the latter sometimes of the foot-operated kind. By the simple means of changing the fittings mounted on the bed, any version (or combinations of versions) could be assembled in a matter of minutes and pressed into service with a minimum loss of time. Whether the makers of the Universo offered such a range of accessories is not known - but it's highly likely that they did.