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Hertfordshire's Web Site, is geared to providing information about Hertfordshire. It has excellent 'Business to Business' links as well has a good A-Z of Hertfordshire based companies |
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Bingham
Pheasant Pluckers The mechanical plucking of poultry and game was the ambition of a young engineer named Alan Bingham. In a small workshop on Holborn Viaduct, he developed and manufactured the renowned "Bingham Dry Plucking Machine ". This was to become a great success with poultry and game producers, and many thousands were sold. Today the 'Bingham' retains its successful original design, but now benefits from state-of-the-art machining and contemporary materials technologies. The 'Bingham' is now manufactured by Bingham Appliances (IB) Ltd. The original business was purchased from Alan Bingham by its present proprietors, and is now run by two engineers of long standing repute, along with their previously established concern, Dotmere Engineering. This company is responsible for a variety of engineering services including mechanical design, prototyping and production of components, systems and solutions to various other trades. The 'Bingham' is therefore developed, manufactured, and built entirely in-house. Dotmere also offers a range of stainless steel equipment for the poultry and catering trades, specifically designed to comply with todays EC directives. Bingham Appliances' commitment to quality and reliability is second to none, and is enjoyed by game and poultry farmers, and processing plants throughout the UK and the rest of the world. Hertfordshire's
manufacturing and industrial history can date back to the early Stone
Age. The Romans have left evidence that still remains today including
the city walls in Verulamium Park in St.Albans where archaeological
investigations have uncovered what we now call SME businesses, Small
and Medium Enterprises. Relics of Hertfordshire trades are now displayed
in all Hertfordshire Museums. The air was cleaner, the surroundings were more open and greener, so much so that Victorian pioneer Ebenezer Howard created plans for a Garden City and searched Hertfordshire for the first experiment. In 1903 Letchworth was chosen its vast success was such that in 1946 the New Towns Act was passed. For 57 years Letchworth Garden City was without pubs, off-licenses and other licensed premises! Stevenage became the first of the New Towns, it was planned to combine a new type of town with residential, shopping, industrial and leisure facilities within so-called `neighbourhood communities'. Hertfordshire is the birthplace of well known aeroplanes such as the Mosquito, Comet and Trident built in Hatfield famous for the place of Henry VIII & Elizabeth I now linked with the history of British Aviation. The de Havilland Company, later Hawker Siddeley and finally British Aerospace became the district's largest employers. For centuries Hertfordshire was one of the leading produces of malt and mall scale brewing has been an important part of Hertfordshire's industrial heritage for hundreds of years. The 1700s saw the Hertfordshire brewing industry really expand. A trade directory of 1855 listed 44 Hertfordshire breweries. William Ransom & Son plc ('Ransom') is the UK’s oldest independent pharmaceutical company has been based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire for over 160 years, Ransom now employs over 200 people at various sites throughout the UK. The
Straw Plait industry was big business in Hertfordshire. Straw hats have
always been popular and not exclusive to public schools and regatta!.
Indeed the wife of Samuel Pepys, 'weary with a walk around Hatfield
Park, found pleasure in trying on a straw hat'. |
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