This company made a router with a large lift-table mechanism. It may have been intended as a printer's machine but is also suitable for working wood panels.
Information Sources
- Thanks to Larry Healey for reporting his machine.
- Astonishingly, we have not been able to find any information whatsoever on this maker. The machine is made of cast iron and well-machined gears and shafts. The name is cast into the base so we are as certain as we can be that the name is correct.
- A 1950 issue of Inland Printer, American Lithographer, available only in "Snippet View": "One Wimmer-Marquardt Trimmer Machine, size 24" x 24". Style "E" No. 102 with AC motor equipment, micrometer attachment, 2 extra trimmer cutters.". This snippet is likely from a used-machinery ad.
- A 1947 issue of The American Photo-Engraver has this snippet:
Although WIMMER-MARQUARDT COMPANY still make the manually operated BURNING-IN-STOVE, as before, they also have the IMPROVED AUTOMATIC MODEL featured here. It is ignited by the weight of the plate pressing on the trigger ...
- The 1968 edition of Chicago, Cook County & Illinois Industrial Directory lists "Wimmer & Marquardt Mfg Co."