John Stokes Bagshaw

John Stokes Bagshaw (15 August 1808 – 1 January 1888) was an inventor and manufacturer of agricultural machinery in 19th century South Australia.

He trained as a millwright, engineer and patternmaker and migrated to South Australia in 1838, arriving in the Eden at Port Adelaide in June 1837.

In 1843 he won public recognition by building the world's first "stripper" harvesting machine for inventor John Ridley; it could strip 6 acres (2.4 hectares) of wheat a day.

With further expansion in its scope, the company manufactured wooden bodies of passenger cars for the South Australian Railways in 1919.

[3] In 1920, with the death of John A. Bagshaw, Vincent A. Zed (1885 – 15 August 1930), a long-time employee, was appointed governing director.

In 1836 he married Jane Dale (c. 1811 – 27 February 1884); they arrived in South Australia on the Eden on 24 June 1838 with a daughter who was born in UK about 1837 and presumably died while young.