page_title: Robey & Co
section_title: Threshing Machines
hierarchical_section_title: Robey & Co / Robey’s Engineering Products / Threshing Machines
caption_attribution_description: English: Robey Trust, Tavistock - threshing machine: A Robey of Lincoln threshing machine awaits restoration in this extension to the Trust's premises. The Trust is devoted to all things Robey and has many steamy delights for followers of road and stationary steam. This is No. 3331 of c1880 and is the oldest known surviving Robey threshing machine. It has had new wheels but is awaiting a suitable woodworker to replace the top boards.
context_page_description: Robey and Co. was an engineering company based in Lincoln, England which can be traced back to at least 1849.
  In 1854 Watkinson and Robey Engineers and Millwrights were manufacturing Portable Engines and machinery of every description in Rumbold Street, Lincoln. They were joined by George Lamb Scott, but in 1855 Watkinson, who had previously worked for Clayton & Shuttleworth of Lincoln, left the company. The business then became Robey and Scott and moved their premises by 1856 to Canwick Road, Lincoln. Another partner, Thomas Gamble, joined the firm and Scott resigned in September 1856 to found his own manufacturing company in Manchester. The company then became Gamble & Robey, but by 1868 was known as Robey & Co Ltd.
  Robert Robey died in 1876 and the firm continued as a partnership led by John Richardson. In 1893 Robey & Co became a limited company. By 1913 Robeys were makers of steam motor wagons, tractors and ploughs and in the First World War manufactured aircraft. The company was purchased by Babcock International in 1984.
context_section_description: Threshing machines were one of the mainstays of Robeys products. 
  In 1859 an impressive threshing machine was exhibited at the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Show. Threshing machines continued to be made until the 1930s and were often sold with portable engines or traction engines to drive them. Threshing machines developed little in design over this period. They were often also sold with elevators. The Robey Trust in Tavistock has threshing machine No. 3331 of c1880 and is the oldest known surviving Robey threshing machine.
caption: Robey Trust, Tavistock - threshing machine
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