Prior to 1973, Roger Smith Hall found himself in charge of a laundry service, part of the family business B Smith’s (Thirsk) Ltd that had begun life as a drapery enterprise and dated back to the eighteenth century. Unimpressed with glitzy world of hotel sheets and towels, Roger sought out a new venture. Asked by chance to assist a local farmer in fitting a web to a potato harvester, the young Roger immediately recognised its wider market potential. He retrieved the old web, took it to pieces and thus R S Hall Engineering was created with the aim to be at the forefront of the market through continuous development, improvement and innovation. When Charles Craig first invented the stone separator in 1980 now a common sight in British agriculture, it was a Halls web that he used to first test the prototype machine.

In the early years, great effort was ploughed into the development of cutting-edge machinery to ensure high quality and rapid production. This ethos remains at the core of our progression, with the majority of production machinery designed and built in-house. It’s a unique approach that has proved equally successful in overseas markets. In 1988 we sold the web manufacturing equipment and technical expertise to Heidrick farms to supply webs to Californian farmers. Then in 1996, Noffsingers bought the rights to sell Halls-designed webs throughout the USA.

We now manufacture more than 3,000 webs a year - to fit any machine, make or model, to any specification or specialist requirement. Fast, free delivery to the UK mainland is included and competitive delivery offered across Europe.

In keeping with an ever-expanding spares market, we manufacture a wide range of sprockets, drives and rollers, in innovative new materials to withstand the harshest of conditions.

We continue to develop new production methods and materials and are constantly striving to improve the effectiveness and durability of our products. Backed by a dedicated and knowledgeable team of engineering, production and sales staff, we intend to build on 30 years of service to the root crop industry and maintain an impeccable reputation as one of the UK’s leading agricultural engineering specialists.