Heres a great page on southbends if your intrested, they've got loads of info on old machine tools there and im pretty sure that lathe you pictured is probably late 1930's:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/southbend/index.html
Thank you, if my father and I ever get to build our garage here at home and move our shop over here. I plan on investing it a real lathe and real Bridgeport
I have wanted these machines since I was a little kid. Next time I’m in the city I’ll grab a pic of my dinosaur in the shop. She’s old and sloppy but we’ve still made some nice stuff with it.
Never had any problems with out bump steer, 4-link or ladder bar setups we’ve made on it... tie rod ends, steer shafts a lot of stuff...
Just want something newer, not brand new I could never afford that. But on Craigslist you see all the time big machines for 2500-3000