Our History
Edgar Hurrell & his two sons James & Ross, were Dairy farmers at Kellyville & Parklea. The Parklea dairy was sold in 1966 & the purchase of the current site, along with an existing steel fabrication business, from Mr Jack Anderson, was made shortly after. The name “Windsor Farm Equipment” was registered the same year. Under this name, the business, manufactured & sold, a select range of tractor attachments, which had been developed by Mr Anderson.
There was a large amount of accumulated scrap metal on the property and in the Hawkesbury area. This led to the yard becoming a scrap metal recycling facility from 1966 to 1969. A press was acquired that could “bale” (crush into square blocks) whole wrecked cars.
A decision was made, in 1966, to add tractors & other machinery, to supplement the limited range manufactured in-house. In 1966 David Brown tractors & Howard Rotovator were added to the range. From 1966 the business supplied many tractor & implement packages, to the many new market gardens, that were starting up, in the local area, around this time. Some of this equipment is still operating today! By 1970 Jarrett Implements & John Berends Implements had been added to the range of equipment that was being sold.
Over the decades many other brands have been represented, some of which no longer exist, a very abbreviated list includes: Arrow Farmquip, Case David Brown, Case International Harvester, Clough Ploughs (NZ), Connor Shea Napier, Daken, Deutz Fahr (Germany), Hardi Pumps & Sprayers, Ivory Brothers Limited (IBL NZ), John Shearer, Same (Italy),Valpadana (Italy), Yanmar (Japan)
David Brown ceased production in March 1988 & Windsor Farm Equipment sold some of the last units, to be delivered to Australia (Models 1194 & 1294). To this day many of the “older” local market gardeners (& ex market gardeners) know us as “David Brown Vineyard”. The superceding tractor range we were offered - Case IH (International Harvester) - was not well suited to the local market gardens, who were using rotary hoes & we gave up trading with Case IH in 1990.
Edgar continued to be a part of the business, until he died near the end of 1990, leaving his 2 sons Jim & Ross, to carry on the business.
Jim moved to Argentina in 1994, leaving the business in the hands of his brother Ross & his sons.
Mark & Mick (Ross’s sons) took over the operation of the business in 2010.