William Ball and Son
William Ball and Son of Rothwell, Kettering. Based at The Royal Implements Works (Ball's Foundry)
See William Bell and his son William Ball (1804-1877)
1798 Company founded
1851 Exhibited a plough at the Great Exhibition
1870 Exhibited five specimens of their wagons and carts, a collection of their ploughs also their double furrow ploughs, scarifiers, etc
1876 Exhibitor at the Smithfield Club Show with wagons and carts [1]
1894 June. Royal Agricultural Society's Show. Hay Press (Kirby's patent).[2][3]
c.1900 Bought by the Burgess Group
1939 William Ball and Son Ltd, Rothwell.[4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1876/12/15 p411
- ↑ The Engineer 1894/06/29 p562
- ↑ The Engineer 1894/07/06 p16
- ↑ Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 01 March 1939