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of Heybridge, Maldon, Essex
- 1805 Company founded by William Bentall on land near to the Chelmer and Blackwater canal at Heybridge
- 1839 The company was named as E. H. Bentall and Co when the company was managed by Edward Hammond Bentall the son of William
- 1851 Award at the 1851 Great Exhibition. See details at 1851 Great Exhibition: Reports of the Juries: Class IX.
- 1889 Edmund Ernest Bentall started to take over the management of the business from his father, Edward.
- 1894 June. Royal Agricultural Society's Show. Grater, or Root Cutting Machine. [1]
- 1906 Announced they were introducing 8, 10 and 16-hp cars. [2]
- 1908 Started production of a range of engines initially from 2.5 to 7 hp and later extending the range to 9 hp.
- 1912 Production of Bentall cars ceased in 1912 (some lists say 1913) after about 100 cars had been built.
- 1912 Introduced a 1.5-hp two-stroke engine but it was soon replaced by the Pioneer model. The Pioneer range came in models from 1.5 to 12 hp.
- 1914 Specialities: Chaff Cutters, Grinding Mills, Cattle Food preparing Machines, Petrol and Oil Engines and Engineers' Bright Steel Nuts, Bolts etc. [3]
- 1914 The works was employing some six to seven hundred hands with the works covering an area of about fourteen acres
- Post WWI Became part of AGE - Agricultural and General Engineers and were the largest company in the group.
- 1925 Ceased production of the vertical engine
- 1933. In 1933, E. E. Bentall purchased the ordinary shares of the company from the receivers of Agricultural and General Engineers.
- WWII. Production set up for the manufacture of small machine parts for the aircraft for Handley-Page. Also produced complete assemblies such as tail fins and bomb floor for the new Halifax bombers
- 1946 Public company with Charles Bentall as Chairman
- 1949 New foundry built. Also they purchased of Tamkin Brothers and Co of Chelmsford
- 1961 Manufacturers of field implements, barn machinery, self-filling drinking bowls, grain handling and storage plant, galvanised ware, brewery equipment, dairy equipment, coffee and rice plantation machinery. 500 employees. [4]
In 1961 the company was taken over by the Acrow group of companies.
- 1984 Acrow went into receivership. The business founded nearly 180 years before closed in Heybridge.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 29th June 1894 p562
- ↑ Autocar Magazine of 8th December 1906
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- [1] It's about Maldon