In 1933 the merger of Aveling and Porter with Barford and Perkins, the UK’s leading manufacturers of steam powered road rollers, gave birth to a powerful force in precision engineering – Aveling-Barford. Diversifying to meet the needs of the growing market for motor powered construction equipment, Aveling-Barford introduced the UK to it’s first site dumper in 1936.

The post war years of the late 1940s and early 1950s heralded a new era in the demand for construction equipment. This, coupled with Aveling - Barford’s sound understanding of the rapidly evolving civil engineering industry, formed a catalyst for the progressive development of ever more sophisticated and bigger machinery.