Abstract: Lathe comprising at least a headstock, a slide bed and two tool carrier bed-side carriages guided for displacement on longitudinal sides of the slide bed in the direction of the Z-axis, in which the machining plane defined by the Z-axis and the X-axis of this lathe forms an angle with the horizontal, whereby in order to increase the space available for the bed-side carriages the longitudinal sides of the slide bed bearing the two bed-side carriages extend transversely to the machining plane and are arranged on sides of the slide bed facing away from one another.