Doughty

Doughty engineering is a family business that started in 1970 as a manufacturer of trailers, ranging from small camping and boat trailers right up to 20 tonne commercial truck trailers. In 1980 they started the design and manufacture of a range of attachments for rough terrain forklift trucks that are used in the farming and construction world. Doughty soon became known as one of the UK’s leading manufacturers in this field making a range of high-quality products such as hydraulic silage grabs, towing hitches, crane jibs, muck forks and grain buckets.

By the mid-eighties it was clear that to survive the impending recession there was a need to diversify even further. The Doughty of today could be regarded as a happy coincidence. When a local theatrical supply company asked us to quote for the manufacture of some bracketry for them little did we know that this would lead to a whole new world of products. After making the first batch of 500 steel hook clamps for them this quickly led on to orders for boom arms, safety chains etc and the rest, as they say, is history!

The product range continued to develop and soon led on to the design of the extruded aluminium half couplers we call the Doughty Clamp. This quickly became the industry standard half coupler and led on to many other innovative products. The trigger and quick trigger clamps followed and this led on to the Twenty and Fifty clamps. These were all designed by us and have been copied all around the world. In 1994 we began to manufacture grip equipment for the TV and film world and this range has also continued to grow.