Brand

Used Walker-Turner machines

Ernest Walker and William Turner started Walker-Turner in Jersey City in the late 1920s and moved to the old Bosch Magneto plant in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1931. Its first Driver line was cheap machines sold through department stores, and from 1934 it built sturdier 500, 700 and 900 series machines, adding the 1100 series in 1936, geared-motor machines in 1938 and an Art Deco restyle in 1939. Kearney and Trecker owned it from 1948, and Rockwell bought it in May 1956, closed Plainfield in 1957 and moved production to Ohio and Mississippi. The Walker-Turner name ran into the early 1960s as a Rockwell division. Letters in the model numbers name the machine (D for drill press, BN for band saw, P for jointer, S for shaper), and a 1961 service bulletin decodes the serials. Sears sold some as Craftsman under the 102 code.

4 models we cover.