Aveling and Porter

Aveling and Porter
Company typePrivate company
IndustryAgricultural engine and steamroller (road roller) manufacturer
Founded1862; 162 years ago (1862)
England
FoundersThomas Aveling
Richard Thomas Porter
Headquarters
Strood
,
United Kingdom
Traction engine (steam tractor) from Aveling and Porter, around 1865
Steamroller (road roller) "Betsy", manufactured by Aveling & Porter in 1912
Aveling & Porter engine called Amy, recorded at Fawley Hill, 19 May 2013

Aveling and Porter was a British agricultural engine and steamroller (road roller) 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 (road rollers) in the world.[1] The company used a rampant horse as its logo derived from the White Horse of Kent.[2]

  1. ^ Preston 1977, p. 121
  2. ^ Burton, Anthony (2000). Traction Engines Two Centuries of Steam Power. Silverdale Books. p. 114. ISBN 1856055337.