This maker and dealer was active from 1842 through to at least 1993. They made and sold a variety of machinery and hand tools, including woodworking lathes. Their metalworking machinery included lathes and planers.

Wilkinson also made hand tools, including a patent drawknife.

Information Sources

• Listed in 1852 Scientific American as an agent for Jos. R. Brown's "United States standard rules."
• Listed in 1866 Scientific American as carrying Morse's patent twist drills and chucks.
• 1869 ad in Scientific American for "gentelman's tool chest."
• For-sale listing of Wilkinson treadle lathe, identified as circa 1875.
• 1883 article in Scientific American that mentions Wilkinson's display of small machinist and woodworker tools.
• The EAIA Directory of American Toolmakers has the following entry for this firm: "The company did not make all of the tools they marked and sold, but they were manufacturers. They used an 'Est. 1842' date and it appears that Wilkinson probably did start under his own name at that time; it is not clear when the '& Co.' was added. One tool they do appear to have made was a draw knife with an 1895 patent. They also made several micrometers patented between 1883 to 1886 by Merrick M. Barnes; ca. 1890, the rights to those were bought by Brown & Sharpe. They sold a line of foot powered scroll saws, lathes, drills, grinders, etc.; a pin vise; a saw clamp and filer; plumb bobs, etc."