The Chaseside Engineering Company Ltd company was based at Blackburn in Lancashire England and they built some of the earliest loaders and cranes all based on Fordson farm tractors. The company was founded in Middlesex in 1937. The firm also made the Northrop tractor an early UK built high horsepower Four-wheel drive tractor which effectivly became the Muir-Hill range when its inventor/designer moved companies.Chaseside was sold out to JCB in 1968, and the brand name was soon dropped.