Lathe identification

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

An old lathe recently appeared on ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lathe-old-lathe-/261000750571?pt=UK_Home_Garden_PowerTools_SM&hash=item3cc4db65eb

The names on the makers plate do not appear on Lathes.co.uk (I have advised Tony G) and the only reference on the web is an old advert

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im1876POWor-Wheat7.jpg

which looks to include an illustration of the lathe.

Are they manufacturers or a trader? If the latter does anyone recognise the lathe as being badged by anyone else?

Perhaps a Mancunian with some interest in local history could dig up a bit more info.

It isn't me who bought it – just wanting to see if we can collect historical info for the record. This migth be the last of its species or maybe you are using one this evening yourself.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Wheatley Kirk, Price & Goulty

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Possibly just a rebadged Britannia lathe sold by a reseller

http://www.lathes.co.uk/britannia/index.html

Some of those old victorian companies made vast numbers of lathes around WW1

British industrial output for the Empire and Dominions was quite mind boggling

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