Daltons has acquired the intellectual property rights of Wadkin for an undisclosed sum.
The move, which brings together two woodworking machinery suppliers who have traded with each other for 50 years, follows the liquidation of Wadkin Ltd earlier this year.
A number of Wadkin personnal have transferred to Daltons’ Nottingham base, including commercial manager Alan Powney.
“I have been working with Wadkin and selling Wadkin machines for the whole of my working life,” said Daltons director Francis Dalton.
“Our company has been distributors for Wadkin since 1956 and it is surely fitting that the Wadkin name has finally come home where I feel it belongs.”
Wadkin will be operated alongside Daltons’ business as a machine manufacturer and distributor, also offering machine service, training and parts supply.
Daltons had already owned the manufacturing and distribution rights to the classical range of machinery, which will continue to be built to original designs and specifications.
The Wadkin website will shortly be reinstated.
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