K.A. President John Jackson.
Benedict Machine Tools S.A. was a Kramer Associates daughter company created as part of the Jackson restructuring engineered by K.A. President John Jackson from 1929 to 1932. The daughter company was named after Jackson's predecessor, Douglas Benedict. The S.A. designation suggests that Benedict Machine Tools was incorporated in a civil law country such as France, Spain, or Italy rather than a common law country such as Great Britain or the Confederation of North America.