Edward L Bateman Ltd was located on the 1st Floor of Shell House in Fort Street, Bulawayo. The buisness was a top supplier of engineered products to the infrastructure, mining, processing and construction industries.
The buisness was established by American Edward L. Bateman, a young mechanical engineer who emigrated to South Africa to assist local representative, Herbert Ainsworth, in selling the Allis-Chalmers range of equipment to mines.
