Most people would just call this section "turning" (or in the US more commonly something like "lathe work.") It's only in the context of " ornamental turning" that regular turning becomes "plain."
Literature on Specific Lathes
The Hjorth Lathe. Some notes on the literature for the Clausing-Colchester 13" (= Colchester Master 2500).
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