Mobile Lathe, and GI machine shop?

[Choiliefan]

The larger faceplate behind those boots must be about 20".
Perhaps the lathe has a gap bed?

 

[C-Bag]

Here's some for the fun. Below looks NATO by the colors, but not US by the design style. The lathe is an Austrian EMCO:

US Army, can't quite place the date. Those boots are old style jump boots (as the signal corps would have):

And a South Bend sales floor in a trailer, 1956:

Love the NATO design trailer as opposed the claustrophobic US setups. I prefer more air and light to working in a hallway. Only bad thing is it is prone to flying dust, oh well.