Help identify this melbourne saw maker

I picked up this little table saw combo bargain today for $150
Can't wait to get it into the workshop and put my triton to one side.

I think this will be my new workhorse with the solid cast iron top and jointer at the side running off the same motor.

Only prob is I've searched high and low to find any info I can on where it was made and if theres any chance I could download a manual or something about the machine for interests sake.

Has Melbourne on the badge so I assume that Arthur G. Rook was a Melb based machinery company. Seems like a well made little unit anyway, even got a spare twin axle motor incase I have any probs.

Any comments would be welcome.
Has anyone seen one of these before?
There must be some others out there, can't find anything online though.

Andrew, Arthur Rook ,I think were the agents for Gilbro ,back in the sixties, Gilbro small wood working machinery were very popular back then, Gilbro still operate in Melbourne , no web site , Preston I think. John.

Great thanks for the info, I did a bit of a search for Gilbro but didn't find much, I'm wondering if I can get a guard or any extra parts I might be mssing, there seems to be a bar where a guard used to be, a picture of another one with guard fitted would help so if anyone else knows anything please let me know.

Can't wait to start using it, looks like a beauty:2tsup:

Just wondering why this thread doesnt show up under New Posts or Todays Posts?

I have a Gilbro combo 10inch Tilt top saw and 6inch jointer. The Jointer is the same as yours, but the saws are chalk an chesse. I suspect that someone has collected a saw, jointer, motor etc and made a frame to set them up as a combo unit. The saw is not familiar to me, nor is the overall layout.
Was in the metals game a while ago and we used Gilbro Engineering for surface grinding. They are in Preston and had some mammoth old world grinding machines running, I wouldn't be surprised if they are decended from the original Gilbro company.

G'day Andrew,
I share your excitement as I cleaned up my Dad's old bench about a year ago. It's worth putting in the effort to clean off any rust and give it a coat of paint. I have found that Silver Glide is good for stopping the top from rusting. Can't help you with any info about the saw though.

Yes, I need to get some silver glide, always seemed so expensive when I went to buy it in the past but I will have to stop being so tight buy some.

Looks like it will take me a while to get it up and running, its not cutting square and doesn't seem to have any easy way of adjusting it to 90 degrees so I might have to take the motor assembly off and shim it out, put it back on check it adjust etc etc more shims until its spot on 90. (there goes a few hours)

Also need to get a guard and riving knife fitted to it somehow then figure out how to hook it up to the dust extractor.

Not too comfortable using it without a riving knife and some sort of anti kickback hold down guard. That's one thing I liked about the Triton, it had an easy to remove riving knife and a pretty good guard that was easy to adjust.

If anyone has any pictures of shop made guards they have designed for their table saws I would be interested in seeing them.