The Farmers Mart Apr/May 2016 - Issue 45 | Page 32

K Two Sales K Two Sales Open Day Proves a Winner »»OUR INTREPID IAN Wilkinson grabbed his passport and headed south for a change, to Buckinghamshire, to the very first open day for K Two Sales, a thriving business based at Fowlers Field Farm, Haddenham near Aylesbury, Bucks. K Two Sales was started back in 1987 by Terry Kelloway and Ashley Knibb and run as a partnership. Why K Two Sales? Simply because both surnames begin with K. Nowadays K Two Sales is owned and by run by 32 Apr/May 2016 www.farmers-mart.co.uk Terry, his wife Kay and son Paul. Terry opted to keep the name for continuity. K Two Sales started by manufacturing the K Two 8 drum mower a smaller version of the Agrimech grasshopper. They were then introduced to Bob Jacobs and manufactured muck spreaders for BJ Spreaders, where it was a fact that no two machines were ever the same as Bob Jacobs just worked to order one machine at a time. This design rapidly became a template for them. K Two Sales then moved on to manufacturing a range of spreaders and trailers and such was their level of success their last mower was sold in 2000. So K Two Sales was well and truly on its way. What really strikes you about this business is that although now it is a significant size, it remains very much a family operation. The team includes staff Rebecca Kelloway and Paul Kelloway (Terry’s son) who heads up the operation, and there are many loyal,