Cleaning up my old lathe

[Mayhem]

I had posted about this lathe over on the PM site when I first got her, hoping that someone may be able to provide some information on her heritage.

Yesterday I received an email notification of a new reply and it seems there is another Australian out there with a similar lathe. What was more interesting was that he referred to his as a "Willson" lathe.

This morning, I see there has been another reply, this time with a link to some info on the Willson from www.lathes.co.uk Whilst there is only 1 photo of the lathe, it does look like mine. Especially the bed and the tail stock. The nameplate appears to have been placed on the door of the headstock pedestal, which is missing from my lathe.

Here is the post on PM

Here is the page from lathe.co.uk