How a Pittler lathe came to be stamped as manufactured by Henry Milnes, a maker of high-class machines tools from Bradford in Yorkshire is unknown, but the writer has encountered two such examples: the first, shown below, had the Milnes name stamped into the front face of the headstock while the second, of which no photographs exits, had a rather fine cast bronze plate secured to the rear of the bed or headstock. As the rest of the lathe - bed, carriage, tailstock and screwcutting arrangements appears to have been identical to a standard Pittler - it is entirely possible that just the headstock was by Milnes. As no known Milnes literature mentions the machine, it may be that the George Adams, the Pittler agent in London (with his panoptic involvement in all things precision) may have had a hand in its commissioning, perhaps to repair a damaged or worn machine. On the Milnes headstock the bearings are of a known Pittler  type, as also used on very early Drummond 3.5 and 4-inch lathes where the spindle ran directly in the cast iron of the headstock with the bearings adjusted by bolts passing horizontally through the casting beneath them to close down vertical slots cut into the casting
The more normal Pittler sun-and-planet epicyclic backgear system, built neatly into the front section of the spindle pulley (and as widely used on the Pattern B) was also omitted and replaced by a conventional 4-gear arrangement - a design also used on some larger Pittler lathes..