Makers of "Bench Precision" Lathes (original) (raw)

Links on lathes.co.ukto some makers of plain-turning, precision bench lathes. These lathes all lacked conventional
screwcutting by a changewheel-driven leadscrew (though some had, as an option, a screwcutting feed to the top slide)
and could be arranged in three basic ways:

- with a screw-feed compound slide rest as lathe for use by a toolmaker simple
  but very accurate one-off work
- as a �second-operation� lathe equipped, usually, with the slide rest and tailstock fitted
  with lever operation
- as a full-blown production lathe in which case the usual fitting would have been a
  bed-mounted indexing capstan unit and lever operation of the collet closer.
  Depending upon the job in hand, any combination of the above arrangements could be used and the so lathe�s versatility best exploited. Of course, exceptions to
  the definition of a �Bench Precision Lathe� existed with some makers, including Boley and Lorch, offering plain-turning versions of otherwise screwcutting
  models while others, such as Schaublin, always distinguished between the types and had dedicated models for each application.

Of other known US makers few details survive,
these including: Ballou (sometimes found badged as
�"Waterhouse Electric & Mfg. Co�.), Ballou & Whitcombe,
Engineering Appliance Co. (Jamestown, N.Y.)
Fenn-Sadler, and the "Cosa Corporation of New York"

Canada
http://www.lathes.co.uk/cowan/page2.html