posted October 15, 2007 04:31               

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Regards,
Rick

posted October 15, 2007 21:01               

Howard brought his ideas over here to England and set up one company near St Albans and another at Harleston in Norfolk where they made grain drill for M-F and the Howard Rotospreader.

They also had a place at Saxham in Suffolk, next door to Manns, the Claas importers where they sold "Harvestore",the glass covered grain silos.

The company was broken up in the late 1970,s and the Harleston plant was bought by Dowdeswell, the British plough manufacturer. They continued to make drills and spreaders and also moved the production of the hand rotovator there.

When Dowdeswell closed the factory, the small hand rotovators came to Kongskil here at Holt about 15 miles from me at Dereham and the bigger ones and all the potato bed forming equipment went to Standen Engineering at Ely who are building and developing it further. So I still see them being manufactured when I visit the factory although they are now light blue in colour. Standen are one of my customers.