However, it was made for one year only before being replaced by the much better specified 101.07301-as listed in the post 1938 catalogs shown hereĪtlas 6' x 18' (3' centre height) - 1941 version with the taller, Mk. spindle thread, a headstock that lacked backearing and a countershaft unit and belt-tensioning arrangements of a very elementary, lightweight design, was sold at the very competitive price of $42. This initial Craftsman model, which carried an inadequate 3/4' x 16 t.p.i.

Enormously popular in America - it was affordable and with a specification that allowed it to undertake the majority of jobs likely to be encountered in a home workshop - its likely that the lathe made its first appearance not as an Atlas but badged for the mail-order company Sears,Roebuck under their Craftsman identification tab as the 101.07300. Styled to closely resemble its larger brother, the ' 10-inch', the Atlas 'Model 618' 6' x 18' (3.5' centre height) backgeared and screwcutting lathe was in production from 1936 until 1974 and then, in Mk.

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