Active in the 1800s, the only evidence of the Company's existence are occasional illustrations of their products and advertisements in the "Engineer Magazine" for late in that century. The London Lathe & Tool Co. manufactured conventional backgeared and screwcutting lathes, ornamental lathes - and accessories for them - and  two unusual multi-functions machine. The latter, doubling as simple lathes and horizontal and vertical millers and drills, were designed to be as versatile as possible with their work tables mounted on swivelling brackets that could be angled and also driven round by means of worm and wheel gearing. The smaller version - shown as images 1 and 2 in the illustration below - were of the self-contained treadle-drive type with their spindles turned by round leather 'gut' ropes, probably of 1/4" to 3/8" diameter. As such, their ability to remove metal would have been limited and considerable patience required to complete a job. If the craftsman engaged on the job was lucky enough to employ an apprentice, guess who would have been employed to operated the treadle…
A further development of this type of machine was the Beichle Combined Universal Die Milling Machine, (these heavily-built machine tools being marketed at one time in the UK as the Excel) Remarkably, the Beichle die miller was kept in production until the late 1960s, when UK prices ranged from £2552 to £3904..