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Modern Designs

From Graces Guide
1951. Potato Planter.

of Twyford, Berks.

1945 Described as Research and Development Engineers, temporarily accommodated at Hurst Grange, Twyford. Applied for permission to establish research organisation on land at Longfield Road, Twyford[1]

1948 Percival J. Packman of Modern Designs Ltd, Twyford announced an invention ....[2]

1948 Packman potato harvester was one of a number of machines displayed at the Royal Show at York[3]

1949 Announced a forward loader for tractors[4]

Later became Packman Machinery Ltd

2007 APV Finance Ltd was in liquidation; its previous names were Modern Designs Ltd, Packman Machinery Ltd, Baker Perkins Developments Ltd and Baker Perkins Bakery Ltd.[5]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Wokingham Times 03 August 1945
  2. ↑ Wokingham Times 23 January 1948
  3. ↑ The Engineer 1948/07/09
  4. ↑ The Sphere 26 November 1949
  5. ↑ London Gazette 28 February 2007
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