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John Stokes Bagshaw (15 August 1808 – 1 January 1888) was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery in South Australia. ==Career== He was born in Chetwynd, Shropshire, the son of Edward (19 May 1776 – 4 February 1889) and Margaret Bagshaw. He trained as a millwright, engineer and patternmaker and migrated to South Australia in 1838, arriving in the ''Eden'' at Port Adelaide in June 1837. He was involved in setting up flour mills at Noarlunga, Port Noarlunga and Encounter Bay. He set up a workshop in Elizabeth Street, Adelaide, making windmills. He invented a winnowing machine which met with some success. His first two sons, John Augustus and Thomas Henry joined the business. The business expanded into Crowther Street. In 1843 John Ridley commissioned him to build the prototype of his famous "stripper" reaping machine. His winnowing machines, corn crushers, chaff cutters and churns won prizes at the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Show in 1867. He also built baggers, elevators and mill machinery at his "Pioneer" works. His son John Augustus joined the business in 1852 and proved his father's equal in design and manufacture of farm machinery, taking out several patents, and taking control of the company. In 1893 the company demonstrated a greatly improved disk threshing header. In 1910 a fire in the Adelaide factory forced the implementation of a long-planned move to Victoria Street, Mile End between King Street and Hilton Road, once a wheat paddock. In 1911 Thomas H. Bagshaw's two sons Edward G. Bagshaw and Thomas Stokes Bagshaw, took over management of the company. In 1920, with the death of John A. Bagshaw, Vincent A. Zed (1885 – 15 August 1930), a longtime employee, was appointed governing director.〔 This article contains much interesting background detail.〕 In 1920 Bagshaws bought the Balaklava business of Illman and Sons. In 1924 the company was taken over by J. H. Horwood and Co. Ltd., and continued to operate as Horwood, Bagshaw Ltd. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Stokes Bagshaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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