Evers & Wall

Evers & Wall Ltd traded from the Lowesden Works at Lambourn Woodlands, on the downs between Lambourn and Newbury in Berkshire, telephone Lambourn 188/189 and telegrams 'Everall Lambourn', and is listed among the British makers of garden syringes and sprayers. Its founding date and founders could not be established from the sources fetched for this entry, and no company of the name survives on the Companies House register.

The firm's Land Rover connection is as old as the vehicle: its E & W Sprayers leaflet of about 1958, 'As approved by the Rover Co. Ltd for use with the Land-Rover', states that Evers & Wall had been using and supplying sprayers for Land Rovers since the introduction of the Land Rover in 1948. The leaflet, showing a Series I 80 with a front-mounted boom, made the case for spraying with a Land Rover: crop damage from large traction tyres virtually eliminated by four-wheel drive, lower weight and smaller tyres, spraying at up to 10 mph to cover 80 to 90 acres a day, four-wheel drive for the steepest land, and for the contractor a self-contained unit that carried its own chemicals between jobs. The high/low-volume sprayer came with a 65 or 100 gallon tank or ran from the customer's own 40 gallon drum to save overseas freight, could also wash down buildings, vehicles and yards, pump water to troughs and serve as first-aid fire-fighting equipment, and offered a patented anti-drip system using a Schrader valve, instant full pressure, booms adjustable to crop height and self-filling at about 50 gallons in three minutes.

By the end of the 1960s the range had been renamed Evrall. The Evrall spraying equipment brochure, again approved by the Rover Co. Ltd and illustrated with a Series IIA 109 pick-up registered RHO 927G (1968-69), shows the galvanised tank-and-frame unit in the rear body with a rear-mounted PTO-driven pump and bracket, folding front booms, an 8 ft cantilever boom with 9 in jet centres and centre-feed hose reels with rotary seals and manual rewind for mid mounting; on the long-wheelbase Land Rover the PTO pump could be replaced by one of the firm's petrol-engined pumping units. The address by then was given as Evers & Wall Limited, Lambourn Woodlands, near Newbury, telephone Lambourn 444. Lowesden Works remains the name of the site at Lambourn Woodlands, now let as offices.