Dorman sprayers

[Devil's advocate]

The Knight sprayer of its day.

What happened to Dorman?

 

[Flat 10]

The Knight sprayer of its day.

What happened to Dorman?

From Ely?

 

[Bury the Trash]

demise came possibly because everyone bought foreign ie Hardi which tbh we did after the Allman got pastit....

mind you weve got Allman and Gem these days so at least tried belatedly.. to support home industry....

 

[Devil's advocate]

From Ely?

Googled, Dorman

Yes they appear to have closed & reopened with some of the Dorman people as Team sprayers.

I remember Dad on his David brown 780 with the Dorman on the back it had a picture of a stork on the side. Real smart low ground pressure outfit, did a great job on the pre em. He later had evers & walls & we are now on the 3rd Hardi. So 5 sprayers since 1963.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Just googled evers & walls

Found something very similar to what Dad had, looked a bit like a primative Hardi. I remember it had the same pump as the pto power washer we had.

 

[Bury the Trash]

The Hardi association with E& W began , it seems with them buying, importing / using Hardi pumps in the late fifties.

Then eventualy in about the mid / late 70's ? morphed into E& Wall just being name plate on what was totally a Hardi sprayer ? .....by then perhaps production had stopped , replaced by the import?

 

[Richard98]

Great uncle used to use a 12m trailed dorman, it was kept when we got a 24m Hardi so dad took the booms off and has it as a 3m margin sprayer. I may be wrong but for some reason I think there’s a connection to ransomes, can’t really remember

 

[rob h]

Great uncle used to use a 12m trailed dorman, it was kept when we got a 24m Hardi so dad took the booms off and has it as a 3m margin sprayer. I may be wrong but for some reason I think there’s a connection to ransomes, can’t really remember

We had a ransomes hawk sprayer new early 80s. I've seen the same thing with Dorman name on .I don't know who made them

 

[Lowland1]

Ransomes bought Dorman then Ransomes stopped making sprayers. We had a Dorman Fenlander then a Dorman Hawk. It wouldn't have been a stork on the tank but a heron as the heron is the bird of the fens.

 

[Exfarmer]

They were good solid sprayers , had a trailed 12 metre for years, but I think they were very basic seem to remember it was two ropes to pull on and off

 

[two-cylinder]

The Dorman Factory was located in the centre of Ely in Bray's Lane, formerly it was a Jam factory.
After Dorman finished, it was demolished and is now a housing estate called St. Martin's Walk.

 

[traineefarmer]

Ransome bought Dorman and transferred production to March. When Ransomes ended root machinery production, the March factory was closed and sprayer production ended with it. Some ex-Dorman staff, presumably made redundant from Ransomes took designs ans know-how and founded Team.

 

[Oliveau]

Dorman taken on by Ransomes as posted above. Their Reguflow system was very good as you could vary engine revs in a given gear and dose rate would stay pretty well on the mark

 

[2wheels]

Dorman taken on by Ransomes as posted above. Their Reguflow system was very good as you could vary engine revs in a given gear and dose rate would stay pretty well on the mark

my allman did the same. never did see the sense of the ramsay thingymibob, perhaps someone will enlighten me.