I have an old industrial that I love, and it also has no reverse. What I do is to adjust the stitch length to tiny, when I reach the end of a seam. I was talking to a career sewing machine repairman, and he told me that in the industry, the sewers would use the knee lift lever to remove the pressure off the cloth, and then they would pull it towards them, then lower the knee lever and go forward again over those last stitches. So the seamstresses would rather manually do a reverse stitch.
I think this would take some practice to learn to do it. But once learned, it would be a really quick process.