Machines that made history WEEKS-DUNGEY

Growth opportunities, including the introduction of new machinery products and technology, attracted additional companies into the machinery industry, and one of the new arrivals was an engineering business established during the 1870s or 1880s in Maidstone, Kent by William Weeks. He started the business on a small scale, making and repairing equipment for local farms, but hop production for the brewing industry was expanding in Kent and this offered an opportunity for the Weeks company to develop special products for their hopgrowing customers.

As early as 1889, the Weeks company had expanded sufficiently to have its own stand