I have been in the process of refurbishing a Westbury vertical mill (not a Dore-Westbury) which is the original version with dovetailed slides.
The cross feed screw is LH to clockwise rotation moves table away from the operator. The table feed screw is RH which appears somewhat counterintuitive.
In reassembling the table components it appears possible to assemble with the table feed handwheel on the left or the right. Is there a convention?
As the owner of two Lorch-Schmidt lathes with right handed feedscrews I know all about the hazards of non-standard configurations (especially noticeable when a vistor parts something off).
Alan