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The following is blatantly copied from the web page link show below, at oldwwmachines.com Not trying to steal anything from them, it looks like a good site and I hope this generates some traffic for them. Go there for the straight scoop. Thought I'd post part of it here so others would know a little history without having to follow the link. The web page link below also has links to PDF files with manuals and information on the Walker-Turner line of shop tools including a 71 page manual on bandsaws. Hope this helps, Charles Quoting..... ..
Walker-Turner made the "Driver Line", a collection of inexpensive machines sold through department stores. They also made larger and sturdier light-industrial machines. Walker-Turner dates back to at least 1931, based on patent records; the earliest dated catalog we've seen is dated 1932. An February 1931 patent gives the company address as Jersey City, NJ. An October 1933 patent - and all subsequent patents and catalogs - give the address as Plainfield, NJ. All mentions, up to and including a 1947 catalog, use the name "Walker-Turner Co., Inc." An small old tablesaw and a separately auctioned wooden blade guard seen on eBay were marked, "Walker-Turner Co., Inc. / Jersey City NJ"; the blade guard also said, "The Driver Line". A 1940 phone book shows Walker-Turner Co., Inc. 639 South Avenue in Plainfield, with their shipping department at 768 North Ave. A February 1949 issue of Hitchcock Wood Working Digest carries an ad for "Walker-Turner Division, Kearney and Trecker Corp., Plainfield, NJ." A 1955 phone book has an entry for Walker-Turner Division of Kearney & Trecker Corp., at 900 North Ave. in Plainfield. The division was purchased by Rockwell in 1956, although the WT name lived into the early 1960s as Walker-Turner Division, Rockwell Manufacturing Co.
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