Lot Essay
There is a pattern of four small holes on the headstock end of the bed where Hines used to place his nameplate: every detail of the lathe corresponds with illustrations in the Hines catalogues, also a reference may be made to Hasluck, The Metal Turner's Handybook, Crosby Lockwood, 1887, fig 18. It can safely be assumed that the machine has been a comprehensive whole since manufacture. Although the Hines firm was long in existence and their workmanship of the best few of the lathes seem to have survived. The slide-rest is however different from these pictures, being heavier and more sophisticated. This lathe was that owned and used by the late W.A.(Bill) Bourne, for seventeen years Hon.Sec. of the Society of Ornamental Turners and a practical turner and writer on the subject. The cutting frames are of the type devised and made by him for members.