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A conversion to V-belt drive - or an original headstock pulley to take a round leather belt?

A lack of micrometer dials on the feeds screws points either to an early version

Is this a W.W. Oliver lathe? It's possible, but with several very telling reservations: the bed has the same widely-spaced V-ways that locate the headstock and tailstock but, instead of the saddle sliding on them as well, instead it's carried on bed's outer flat ways and vertical edge faces. The tailstock does have a W.W.Oliver "family look", with an identical spindle locking handle, though other details are very different  with a very unusual, full-length slit on the back of the casting closed down by two bolts. The headstock bearings are also different, with only the left-hand one of the cap type - the front almost certainly using some form of cone arrangement.

Not the most elegant or well-conceived of compound slide-rest assemblies - and different
to other W.W. Oliver lathes with exposed feed screws and a simple "clog-type" toolpost



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