Iron Fairy was the Brandname for a very successful range of mobilecranes and yard cranes that were designed and built by the British Hoist & Crane Company Ltd (or BHCC Ltd for short) a small crane specialist from Compton a village in the countryside of West Berkshire, England the company was active until 1983. They were founded and started in 1956 by ex Coles Cranes staff a technical quartet who wanted to start a new independent mobile crane engineering operation of their own and sold hundreds of different crane models each and every one of them are all described in the Model Range.