JACK ALLEN’S IN THE ‘BIG BITE’ BUSINESS 1970S, 80S AND 90S
The MD of the business was John Allen, an entrepreneur in solid waste handling equipment. Initially, the company were agents for the Dennis Brothers range of waste collection vehicles until forming a relationship with Heil, the world’s largest manufacturer of waste collection vehicles in 1970.
On one of John Allen’s visits to the States in the mid 70s, he saw the Big Bite Mark V and thought that, with its large three cubic metre hopper, it could be used with skip lifting equipment to collect large volumes of waste in heavily built up areas such as London. He purchased a
