J&D McLennan Ltd was established in 1945 when two brothers James and Duncan McLennan returned from serving in the armed forces during World War II. The company started life as a general engineering business servicing the local community and is still performing much the same today from the same location as originally established.

Over the years new workshops were built and are now one of the largest in the region with 3000 sqm of factory and additional 750 sqm of office/warehouse.

J&D McLennan Ltd have manufactured mechanical equipment under license for various international companies and also using our own design facilities.This includes asphalt manufacturing plant, quarry plant, conveyors, rock crushers, rollers, Toyota vehicle wellside trays, machinery for the manufacture and handling of cement, vehicle tires etc, and even a fairground ferris wheel.

In 1976 we were approached by a company called Hawker Siddley from the UK who had the agency for Jetway Aircraft Passenger Boarding Bridges. They had marketing skills and we had the manufacturing facilities so a 50% joint partnership was formed under a new company which was called Airport Equipment Ltd to market and manufacture this equipment under license for our part of the world.

Not long after the formation of Airport Equipment, Hawker Siddley in the UK was nationalized, and J and D McLennan Ltd purchased the shares that Hawker Siddley held and it became a wholly ownedsubsidiary of J and D McLennan Ltd which it is still today.

Our first order for the supply of PBB’s was at Auckland Airport in NZ and 30+ years later 4 of the original 6 are still in operation. Since then we have manufactured and sold over 220 units which are scattered throughout NZ, Australia and the South Pacific.

Airport Equipment Ltd has a reputation of quality of service. This success is based on the quality of equipment and expertise of staff of J&D McLennan Ltd, which carries on all manufacturing for Airport Equipment Ltd.

Volume of work in Australia required greater presence there and in the early 1980’s Airport Equipment Australia Pty Ltd was established to service Australian market. This was in response to both looking after our interests there and the opportunity to provide ongoing maintenance and better serve customers in Australia. We currently have a team based at the International Airport in Sydney which performs maintenance on all the boarding bridges and aircraft guide in systems there where we have something like 65 units in service.

Through Airport Equipment Australia Pty Ltd J&D McLennan has an established presence and contacts on Australian market.