About Alldays Peacock
Alldays Peacock & Co was established in 1625 during the reign of King James the First. The company was founded by a family of craftsmen named Onions who manufactured bellows in their shed in the shadow of Dudley Castle in the Midlands area of England.
By 1770 the company was trading under the name J C Onions and, having established a virtual monopoly in and around Birmingham, the company soon began manufacturing portable forges in addition to bellows. During the 19th century the company was appointed bellow makers to her Majesty's ordinance and increased production, supplying forges and bellows to the new British colonies abroad.
In 1885, a merger with a local rival manufacturer,William Alldays, saw the foundation of a new company, Alldays & Onions Ltd and advances in technology allowed the company to expand into new areas of production including water turbines, centrifugal fans, positive pressure blowers, pneumatic hammers, cupolas, furnaces, smithy equipment and a huge range of cycles and tricycles.
During the 1900s the company expanded into a new market, producing its first automobile - the Volturette. During the First World War, Alldays & Onions were renowned for their production of motorcycles and when the war ended the company produced a new car - the Enfield-Alldays series LC.
After World War II, with changing market requirements, Alldays & Onions Ltd establish itself as a market leader in the manufacture of centrifugal fans expanding into the field of dust collecting and chemical engineering. In 1969 the company merged with rival fan company J.C.Peacock forming Alldays Peacock & Co Ltd and in the 1980s the company expanded its factory in Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset and began selling abroad.
In 2005 Alldays Peacock was purchased by the world's leading fan-maker, the German-based Witt Group and became part of Witt UK. With manufacturing facilities in Germany, UK and Switzerland, and licensed manufacturing in Canada, Japan, Korea and Indonesia, in addition to a network of agents, the Witt Group supplies high quality products throughout the world.
Manufacturing is carried out to ISO 9000 at our new headquarters located in Halifax, West Yorkshire.