Henry Bamford and Sons

September 1902.

1913.

pre-1916.

Dec 1921.

1923.

On view at Tiverton Museum

Bamford knife grinder at Westonzoyland Museum

Bamford chain pump at Glastonbury Museum of Rural Life

1892. Royal Mower.

Universal Crop Loader.

1892. Rapid Grinding Mill.

Rapid Grinding Mill, Bamfords Patent No. 60. Seen at Melinsey Mill.

Rapid Grinding Mill, Bamfords Patent No. 60.

Rapid Grinding Mill, Bamfords Patent No. 60.

Rapid Grinding Mill, Bamfords Patent No. 60.

1924. Chaff Cutter.

1929. Petrol engine.

Root Cutter.

Exhibit at Ironbridge Gorge Museums.

Exhibit at Ironbridge Gorge Museums.

Advertising picture for hay-making machines.

Photographed in Museo del Recuerdo, Punta Arenas, Chile.

Photographed in Museo del Recuerdo, Punta Arenas, Chile.

Seen in Barbados.

Seen in Barbados.

Exhibit at Somerset Rural Life Museum

Pick-up baler for hay or straw.

Chaff cutter.

January 1906.

1938.

September 1947.

1960's BL59 Baler.

Oil Cake Breaker.

1946 EG2. 2 hp, enclosed governor, serial no. 57288, crank no. 38573. 700rpm. Fairbanks Morse deep well pump.

1964. Land-Lord 55 combine harvester.

Model 7RTC.

Exhibit at the Ceredigion Museum‎.

Exhibit at Internal Fire Museum of Power.

1930s. Pump 1P.

No 2 Saw bench.

Bamford Patent Rapid Grinding Mill No.0.

Bamford Patent Rapid Grinding Mill No.0.

Reaping Mowing No: 7.R. Exhibit at Whiteman Park, Perth.

Reaping Mowing No: 7.R. (Detail). Exhibit at Whiteman Park, Perth.

Potato Digger. Exhibit at Millicent Museum.

No. 1689.

Chaff Cutter.

Henry Bamford and Sons of Uttoxeter

Products

• See Engines

History
1871 Company founded by Henry Bamford and his son Samuel Bamford.

1871 Land on the south side of the town known as the Leighton district, close to the North Staffordshire Railway, was acquired, later to become the Leighton Ironworks.

1881 Employing 50 men, 10 boys and 3 women

In 1881, the Bamford catalogue ran to forty pages and listed a complete range of “agricultural machinery, patent chain and lift pumps, etc.”

By 1883, the company had expanded considerably and had purchased the Lichfield Agricultural Co

1890 June. Royal Agricultural Society’s Disintegrator and Grist Mill Trials.

By 1891, it became necessary to obtain more factory space due to the increased demand for Bamford products.

1893 The Leighton Ironworks now covered an area of 10 acres and employed 400 people.

1894 Catalogue of Bamford's 'rapid' Grinding and Crushing Mills and Split Pulley. (H. Bamford and Sons)

1900 June. Royal Agricultural Show at York. Showed a self-feeding chaff cutter

1910 Horse drawn reaper exhibit

1912 The erection of a new foundry at a cost of £70,000

1916 The business of Henry Bamford & Sons was converted into a Private Limited Company.

1920 Up until this date the company had only manufactured agricultural machinery but now they commenced making stationary engines field with the introduction of two horizontal oil engines of 2.5 and 5/6 b.h.p.

1931 500 people were now employed

1937 Manufacturers of diesel, petrol and paraffin engines.

1958 Became public company.

1961 Manufacturers of balers, mowers, side rakes, swath turners and haymaking machinery, manure spreaders, disc harrows, seed drills, root cutters and cleaners, mills, diesel, petrol and V.O. engines, lighting sets. 700 employees.

1968 Rejected take-over proposal from "rival family firm" J. C. Bamford (Excavators)

The company went into liquidation a few years later.

See Also

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Sources of Information

• The Engineer of 27th June 1890 p521
• The Engineer of 21st September 1894 p272
• The Engineer of 22nd June 1900 p650
• 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
• 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
• [1] Bamford web site