* Tipper tales
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If the NAWK menu was fittingly silver, the latest issue of Hydraulics at Work is appropriately splashed with gold, for it marks the jubilee of the Edbro group. The significant date is July 22, 1919, the day Bromilow and Edwards Ltd. was formed—though Edwards tipping gear had been made first in 1916. Bromilow and Edwards was the first of three separate companies producing tipping gears which were formed by members of the Edwards family, and which today are all part of the same group. The one from which the group gets its trade name Edbro is Edwards 'Bros. (Tippers) Ltd., but in recognition of the grip which the word Edbro now has on the business, the parent company was renamed Edbro (Holdings) Ltd. a couple of months ago.
This special issue of the Edbro magazine devotes six interesting pages to tracing some of the people and events prominent in the Edbro story. I was surprised to learn that the original tipping gear patentee, Maurice Edwards is still living in Bolton and is 93. And thanks to the archives of Commercial Motor it has been possible to reproduce a drawing of the original Cosgrove-Edwards hydraulic pump. And who, you may ask, was Brornilow, who appears in the Edbro story? He was a Bolton haulier, who joined with Maurice Edwards and his three brothers to form the original 1919 company.