Hofherr Schrantz : Clayton Shuttleworth or HSCS was an agricultural machinery company. It was formed by the merger of two Austro-Hungarian agricultural engineering businesses in 1911. A new joint stock company was formed with headquarters in Vienna and Budapest. Clayton & Shuttleworth which had been founded in Lincoln, Lincolnshire in 1842 and had established themselves in Vienna in 1857 and later in Budapest[1] continued its independent operations outside Austria, Hungary and Romania.
Vienna in 1869
Mathias Hofherr started an agricultural machinery factory in Vienna in 1869 and a further factory in Budapest. In 1881, the Hungarian-born János Schrantz joined the company as a capital partner.[2] Both companies had expanded considerably and Clayton and Shuttleworth had opened a further five assembly plants and factories in Austria-Hungary and in the newly established kingdom of Romania.[3]