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Aveling-Barford

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1946. From The British Trade Journal. March edition.
1946. From The British Trade Journal. March edition.

of Invicta Works, Grantham. Road rollers, dumpers, graders, bulldozers, concrete mixers.

  • 1850 Company founded.
  • 1920 Became private company.
  • 1933 Aveling-Barford came into being as the result of the amalgamation of the country's two leading manufacturers of road rollers, Aveling and Porter and Barford and Perkins. Neither of the two constituent firms had Lincolnshire connections, Aveling and Porter being based at Rochester and Barford and Perkins at Peterborough, but following the merger the company moved its operations to a new factory on the outskirts of Grantham.
  • 1937 Became public company.
  • 1937 Road and aerodrome roller manufacturers. "Invicta" Rollers. "Pioneer" Rollers.
  • WWII During the war the company built bren gun carriers for the army, shell fuse caps and various precision-made components for tanks and submarines.
  • 1960s Aveling-Barford continued to prosper in the immediate postwar period, but the 1960s and 1970s were difficult decades for the firm. The workforce was slashed and the company's range of products was dramatically reduced, but Aveling-Barford still survives today as part of Wordsworth Holdings.
  • 1961 Group manufacture road rollers, dumpers, motor graders, calfdozers, trench cutters, shovels, road, quarry, gravel and contractors' plant, diary sterilising and pasteurising equipment, agricultural, horticultural and drainage implements, concrete mixers, and small dumpers.
  • The records of Aveling-Barford include build records, product catalogues, photographs and engineering plans. Many of the records date from before the 1934 merger and therefore relate to the two constituent companies.

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