I may be off base with this idea. The overall appearance of the lathe, style of the crank handles and the design of the apron and headstock bearings (semi-split tapered bronze bearings & style of adjusting nuts) looks like the lathe might be German in origin. The Germans built lathes using Imperial sized fasteners for sale in England (under labels from the sellers in England). It's a good, basic lathe and is all complete and does not look to have been abused.

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I am sure it will be capable of getting out some good work for you. Plenty of 'mystery' lathes are out there, no maker's name or means of identification on them. At this point, the lathe is quite old, and as long as the lathe is complete and in reasonably good condition, knowing the maker's name really serves no useful purpose. Parts, manuals and other information probably have not been available since sometime before WWII for a lathe such as you have. As long as you have a good set of change gears for thread cutting, and a four-jaw chuck, that is all a person could hope for when they get an old lathe of this type. I agree with Parts and Joe..the beds wrong for any Boxford or Southbend clone (not enough raised VEES) and like Joe I'm plumping for German, that back back gear is very Un -English, and the Continentals went for cantilevered beds on their lighter machines. If it has Imperial threads throughout, there was as Joe said a lot of interchange - especially with the Germans, or it could be WW1 reparation - (Germany was stripped naked,) the design copied with Imperial threads being used if it came to the UK.

I also am inclined to think it was made in Germany, and that the tailstock is original. The German makers had a very distinctive way of building up the saddle/cross-slide/compound 'in the sand'. Generally, most German makes used a very thick, double walled apron, but your plain, single wall apron is very thin. However, I do see what looks like an interlock cam on the outside of the half-nut handle. This is a feature often seen on Fischer lathes with power feed.

The compound is also a dead ringer for early Fischer lathes. The rest of the details, however, seem different. Look around for any stamping on various parts of the lathe, particularly around any oiling ports. I may be off base with this idea. The overall appearance of the lathe, style of the crank handles and the design of the apron and headstock bearings (semi-split tapered bronze bearings & style of adjusting nuts) looks like the lathe might be German in origin. The Germans built lathes using Imperial sized fasteners for sale in England (under labels from the sellers in England). It's a good, basic lathe and is all complete and does not look to have been abused. Accuratus Keyboard Driver.

I am sure it will be capable of getting out some good work for you. Plenty of 'mystery' lathes are out there, no maker's name or means of identification on them.

At this point, the lathe is quite old, and as long as the lathe is complete and in reasonably good condition, knowing the maker's name really serves no useful purpose. Parts, manuals and other information probably have not been available since sometime before WWII for a lathe such as you have. As long as you have a good set of change gears for thread cutting, and a four-jaw chuck, that is all a person could hope for when they get an old lathe of this type.Joe thank you for your info, it is indeed in a good shape cause it was covered with greese and dust so most of the parts, afte a very.very good cleaning where like new.almost. Tha fout jaw chuck is already on it but unfortynatly i do not have the gears.that is the reason i want to find out the model cause i want to fabricate the gears. Do you have, or can you borrow, a gear pitch gage? I'm betting 14 1/2 pressure angle, and the date no later than the mid fifties, but I'm far too often wrong.