Horwood Bagshaw Ltd.

Horwood Bagshaw Ltd. is an Australian agricultural machinery manufacturer and dealership chain whose origins date from the late 1800s.

Joel Horwood (c. 1800 – 18 May 1864) was a mechanical engineer from Oldham, Lancashire, who arrived in Adelaide, South Australia on the Baboo in 1848 and the following year founded the Colonial Iron Works in Hindley Street, Adelaide. At least three of his four sons were educated at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution; all followed in the same line of business, initially with him, then in different parts of Australia. As Horwood and Son, then Horwood & Sons, he was able to supply the burgeoning mining industry with urgently required parts, some of substantial size. With his death and changes in ownership, it became successively Horwood, Ellis & Stevens, Horwood & Ellis in 1866 then Ellis & Chittleborough in 1868. That firm failed and the business was taken over by James A Whitfield in 1869. Informative accounts of Adelaide's iron foundries and heavy engineering workshops of the period may be found here.

In 1856 his eldest son, also named Joel Horwood, opened a branch of Horwood & Sons in Vine Street, Bendigo (then called Sandhurst). He was a successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle and Cleveland and Clydesdale horses at his property "Bridgewater Park" on the River Loddon. He had significant interests in the United Garden Gully Gold Mining Company.

He died on 4 May 1900 aged 70 at his home "Glendure House" on Myrtle Street, Bendigo, survived by his second wife Rachelle, née Sibree (born 1868 - her mother was a Coverdale). The foundry was taken over by the foreman Frank M. Brown in 1902 Joel (jnr)'s son Edward James Horwood was notable in Broken Hill, New South Wales as manager of BHP's mine works. He married Carrie, youngest daughter of Gilbert Wood on 9 April 1890.

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