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Ben Burgess

Ben Burgess have been serving the Norfolk and Suffolk farming community since 1931, and supplying horticultural machines since 1962.  Ben Burgess are one of the four original dealers from when John Deere entered the UK market in 1965. The Ben Burgess name has become closely associated with John Deere, Manitou and Hitachi along with several other leading manufacturers in the fields of Agriculture, Horticulture and Construction. The values central to the success of our comp...

History

Ben Burgess and Company was founded in 1931 by Ben Burgess, Edward Burgess and Norman Marshall. 1931 was the perfect time for an Agricultural Engineering company to start, as it was the absolute bottom of the post war agricultural depression.  Our first tractor franchise was the Marshall that was produced by Norman's father. This was at a time when the farming community did not yet except Diesel power, and, to be honest, was thought of as a rather daft idea. Despite the early scept...