Abstract: A lathe with a machine bed, a main spindle stock for a motor driven main spindle fixed to the machine bed, a tail stock moveable in the direction of the main spindle axis, and a cross table including a longitudinal table moveable in the direction of the main spindle axis and a transverse table transversely moveable relative to the longitudinal table, with the longitudinal table being operable by a rotatable longitudinal lead screw and with the transverse table being operable by a rotatably drivable transverse lead screw. The longitudinal lead screw and the transverse lead screw are each provided with a hand wheel, which hand wheel is rigidly connected with a driving wheel couplable to an associated drive motor. The drive motors are controllable by a data processor.