We are specialist manufacturers of hydraulic measurement and control products helping to improve the productivity of heavy machinery.

For 50 years we have been helping customers worldwide in the Industrial, Mobile, and Agricultural sectors to diagnose hydraulic faults, verify hydraulic conditions and achieve repeatable hydraulic control.

Applied Power, a large American business engaged in a wide range of hydraulic related activities began to expand into Europe in the 1960s. One of the many subsidiary companies through which this expansion was effected was Tektro-Webster, which was inaugurated in 1964 and intended to produce a range of pumps and valves in the UK, mainly to supply other wings of the Applied Power operation in Europe.

Within a few years low profit margins and a change of strategy on the part of Applied Power meant that a decision was taken to dispose of the Tektro-Webster business. Roy Cuthbert, who had been managing both Tektro-Webster and its sister company Dynex, and who could see the potential in the business, bought it from Applied Power, changing the name from Tektro-Webster to T.Webster. It was May 1970.

Aware of the pressing need to establish his own manufacturing base, Roy quickly relocated to St. Ives, in Cambridgeshire, and bought up J.R.Roberts, the first of a series of small machine shops with which he hoped to increase his manufacturing capabilities, so as to rely less upon costly American imports.