Hayters





Hayters of Spellbrook
Company formed in 1938 by Douglas Hayter (1914-2000)
1946 Became a limited company
1947 Hayter motor-scythe produced
1955 Set up Hayters (Exports) Ltd
1957 Started producing domestic mowers
1964 Acquired Lodden Engineering
c.1984 Acquired by F. H. Tomkins[1]
1989 The name of Hayters (Exports) Ltd was changed to Hattersley Newman Hender[2] which was a company name previously used by Pegler-Hattersley after acquiring Newman Hender Group but before it was acquired by Tomkins.
1995 Hattersley Newman Hender was a manufacturer of cast iron and bronze valves, part of the Tomkins group[3]
2003 The business was closed and the business transferred to fellow subsidiary Peglers Ltd[4]