Has Anyone Seen A lathe Like This?

This was on CL. The "disc" is 72" in diameter. I wonder if it was purpose built for something specific: machining a big casting maybe?
 
The background is more wood shop than metal shop. Pattern making maybe? They have some pretty big discs to turn sometimes. The wild arrangement of presumably mounting holes on the "faceplate" is certainly intriguing though.

-frank
 
All those holes suggest to me a wide variety of work pieces. Glad I wasn't running the drill press the day they made it!
 
Facing and Boring Lathe. Yes, they were a thing..
 
The background is more wood shop than metal shop. Pattern making maybe?
I'm thinking, maybe the decorative moldings for an arched doorway could
be produced on such a machine. Or, circular windows.
Thomas Jefferson was fond of 'oculi' (round skylights) which would
benefit, too.
 
Looks like a "T" Lathe, but as others have suggested, I'd guess it was a pattern makers machine....
 
I remember seeing one used on YouTube by a women turning a 6' round wooden decorative thingamajig. Don't know what it was for.
 
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