Anybody remember Lupat grain bins, made in Otley Yorkshire?

[DeeGee]

In the sixties when I was a child, there were a number of farms around here that fitted blue three ton Lupat grain bins to trailers. These steel containers collected the grain from combines and could be fitted with either a single grain chute or twin bagging points with over centre clamps to hold the Hessian sacks as they filled.

They were made in Otley, and I often wondered if Lupat also made other stuff, and what became of the firm.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

I live just outside Otley never heard of them but that’s not to say they don’t still make stuff that I’m not aware of?

 

[TEF 20]

If I've remember this right, lupat was founded by a Mr Lupton which later became Econ engineering making hedge/verge cutters, and now they make gritters and hot boxes at Ripon