Envy !!!!
I'm planing on getting hold of a Drummond M soon.
That rust is not much to worry about. A quick go over with a flat s Raper and it'll all be gone then you can assess the ways properly.
My dad had a Drummond M, an OK machine but no better than the ml4 in it's capabilities.
Ah, the Ehrlich. That's currently dismantled, stored in various places in the shed. Really need to get a chuck backplate for that sorted. I hate to admit it, with all of the lathes I have stashed here, but there isn't currently one that's up and running.
Did you assemble the lathe that you were painting green? I've found that to get the overspray off machined surfaces hand scrapers work very well (the types used for scraping bedways & bearings).
I'm interested in the Eirlich lathe, the one I bought has many similarities to an Eirlich. Thread is here, you have posted on it!
http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/info-needed-on-unusual-lathe.52877/
Embarrassingly that lathe is still sitting untouched on the trailer it arrived on nearly a year ago! I need to get someone with a telescopic loader to lift it off & before I do that I need to make 2 dollys to move it around on whilst I'm working on it. But when the Myford ML7 arrived it gave me a working lathe so there was less urgency to get the big lathe working. But the Myford had its limitations & I really need to get the other one going. Unfortunately due to my health my days in the workshop are restricted so it might be still on the trailer next year!