Over the course of time Oakes Bros became agricultural implement merchants and the business gradually expanded as the demand grew for mechanisation on the farm.

In 1950 the company was appointed Ford tractor main dealers and since then Oakes Bros has grown to include a garden machinery department which was set up in Hungerford.

Over the last twenty years Oakes Bros have acquired various sites and businesses with the latest acquisitions being Watson & Haig at Andover in 1990, John Wilder (Agricultural) at Reading and Wallingford in 1996, Sussex Tractors at Horsham in 2004 and William Wheatley (Wickham) Ltd in 2005. With these acquisitions came the Case-IH and JCB franchises so at this point it was decided to create three trading names to identify the different Oakes Bros operations. Oakes Farmpower to service the New Holland franchise, Oakes Landpower the Case-IH and JCB franchise and Oakes Turfpower to identify the companies garden machinery and groundcare operations.

The company currently operates out of three locations, Micheldever, half way between Basingstoke and Winchester, East Ilsley, just north of Newbury and Horsham in West Sussex. Details of these branches are on the contact page of this web site.