Classified as what might be called a smaller type of "precision bench lathe", the Wolf Jahn 70 mm centre height model has been found with bed lengths of  600, 700 and approximately 500 mm.
Listed as early as 1901 at 125 DM, all early models appear to have been driven by a round leather rope though with some - probably later types - being equipped with a heavier-duty flat-belt drive. This lathe does show that the company were competing not just with the makers of lathes for watchmakers, but also with those who made the larger "bench precision type". Even so, very few have been discovered and Wolf,Jahn must have sold very few. The bed was the usual WW (Webster Whitcombe)| D pattern with a central T slot that held the headstock, carriage and tailstock onto the flat-topped, bevelled-edged ways. The 10 mm bore headstock spindle used two adjustable, conical hardened-steel plain bearings with a ball thrust race behind the pulley. Unusually for a precision bench lathe, the tailstock was a "conventional" type and lacked the often-used long barrel that remained fully supported within the casting even when extended to its maximum reach.
Several useful accessories were listed that included screw and lever-feed compound slide rest assemblies, a screwcutting attachment by changewheels and a Carden shaft to the top slide, a stand with a treadle-operated drive system, cast-iron legs and a large wooden top that extended rearwards to form a tool tray and a mounting at the right-hand side for a vice. Also listed, at 275 DM, was a boxed set of the usual collets and chucks, the latter comprising two six-jaw types one with inside jaws and the other outside, a ring-scroll 3-jaw and an independent 4-jaw.

Wolf.Jahn Model "C" with a 70 mm centre height--though with non-original micrometer dials. All early models appear to have been driven by a round leather rope, but this example, almost certainly a later model, has a heavier-duty flat-belt drive--and consequently has had

Unusually for a precision bench lathe the tailstock was a "conventional" type and lacked the long barrel that remained fully supported within the casting even when extended to its maximum reach.

A typical Wolf Jahn bench-lathe headstock with a beautifully sculptured - if not overly rigid - casting with hardened and lapped  spindle and bearings.