Hesco

Listening to them, and watching them line the approach to the temporary chapel in Hesco Bastion's site on Cross Green industrial estate in Leeds, brought back similar scenes from the 19th century, when entrepreneur philanthropists such as Titus Salt or the Crossley family of Halifax went to their graves.

A life lesson from the late, great Jimi Heselden Martin Wainwright 2010

National Guard troops have had time to fortify Alabama's Dauphin Island with sand berms and sand-filled barricades called Hesco barriers.

Slick's Slow Advance Gives Defense Crucial Time 2010

It was very sentimental: 2,000 of us listened to pop songs rather than singing hymns, and the gadgetry that Heselden loved was used to project his chunky face in silvery light on the factory wall of his company, Hesco Bastion.

A life lesson from the late, great Jimi Heselden Martin Wainwright 2010

Jimi Heselden, prolific philanthropist, founder of Hesco Bastion and owner of Segway, was found dead on Sunday after an apparent accident on one of the vehicles manufactured by his company.

Jimi Heselden, Segway Owner Killed In Accident, Remembered For His Philanthropy The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Students may also caution that Hesco has yet to face hard times: wars and floods have ensured demand for its moneymaker, the gabion that Heselden invented with his British Coal redundancy.

A life lesson from the late, great Jimi Heselden Martin Wainwright 2010

He lost his job after a nationwide mining strike in 1984, and used unemployment compensation to found Hesco Bastion.

Owner of Segway Company Dies in Accident Stephen Miller 2010

Worth an estimated quarter of a billion dollars, Mr. Heselden was a miner who made his fortune inventing the Hesco "Bastion" barrier --- a tall wire cage cube that is filled with rocks and dirt for a make-shift defensive wall.

Owner of Segway Machines Dies on a Segway T. Rees Shapiro 2010

Mr. Heselden, who led a group that purchased Segway in 2009, became wealthy as chairman of Hesco Bastion Ltd. of Leeds, England, the manufacturer of wire cages used as the foundations of blast walls protecting soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts around the globe.

Owner of Segway Company Dies in Accident Stephen Miller 2010

The Hesco Bastion's are employed at NATO military outposts all around Afghanistan and the Pentagon has spent more than $50 million dollars on the simple yet effective defensive devices.

Owner of Segway Machines Dies on a Segway T. Rees Shapiro 2010

Hesco claims it takes just 20 minutes for two men with a front-end loader to make a wall a meter high, a meter wide and 10 meters long — a fraction of the effort that it would take with sandbags.

Owner of Segway Company Dies in Accident Stephen Miller 2010