Build circa 1875 to 1895 this 6" x 30" backgeared and screwcutting lathe has survived in remarkably original condition and with a range of most useful accessories - though unfortunately some parts appear to be missing. Pointers to its age include a generally light build, very coarse-pitch gears, the spindle end thrust taken on a pad supported on a pair of pillars to the outside of the left-hand headstock bearing, crank handles to the top and cross slides and power cross feed taken from a shaft running down the rear of the bed. Unfortunately, as the lathe has just been loosely assembled, the carriage is the wrong way round and the gear shown at the front the cross-feed shaft should be at the back.  Other pointers to its antiquity include a 6-ring division plate in bronze fastened to the face of the largest headstock pulley  - and the same expensive material (goodness knows why) used for the tailstock handwheel and the thrust plate for the power cross-feed assembly.
Surviving with the lathe is a wall-mounted countershaft and a complete treadle-drive system, though this, being a round-belt drive type, is from another lathe of a similar age - as may be some of the following accessories that include a large milling slide, a large collection of screwcutting changewheels, gear-cutting attachments, faceplates, a very old-fashioned type if fixed steady (the disc bored with several holes of different diameter) 4-jaw pin chucks, faceplates and drill-bit chucks.