Agricultural & General Engineers
Agricultural & General Engineers Limited (AGE) was a holding company formed on 4 June 1919 during a postwar economic "boom" to combine five British engineering companies: Aveling & Porter, E H Bentall, Blackstone, Richard Garrett and J & F Howard. The holding company's business was described to the judge considering its 1932 winding up as: "agricultural, transport, road, constructional and general engineers".
Headquarters and showrooms. The entrance to Aldwych House WC2 completed for AGE in 1926
Aveling and Porter was a British agricultural engine and steamroller manufacturer. Thomas Aveling and Richard Thomas Porter entered into partnership in 1862, and developed a steam engine three years later in 1865. By the early 1900s, the company had become the largest manufacturer of steamrollers in the world. The company used a rampant horse as its logo derived from the White Horse of Kent.
Aveling and Porter
Traction engine (steam tractor) from Aveling and Porter, around 1865
Steamroller (road roller) "Betsy", manufactured by Aveling & Porter in 1912
Aveling & Porter no. 721 of 1871 – The earliest surviving A&P engine in the UK in The Science Museum