Lang Toolroom Lathes Type 13-inch and 17-inch. Installation and Operation Manual with a copy of the maker's detailed and well illustrated Sales & Technical Specification Cataloge. This is the older type of Lang with heavy and separate cast-iron plinths beneath the headstock and tailstock. On the 13-inch to the left and right-hand sides of the headstock's front face are two vertical levers and, in the centre a lever that works through a horizontal 6-position gate. The 17-inch has a single vertical lever to the right and the 6-position gate in the centre. The 17-inch lathe is shown in these two pictures: http://www.lathes.co.uk/Lang-catalogue-3/img1.jpg . The 13-inch has a second vertical lever to the left of the 6-position gate.