B & B Enterprises Information

B&B has served heavy earthmoving and industrial equipment owners and operators for over 25 years. Owned by Douglas W. Brooks and operated with his partner, Frank Conlon, on property that has been in the Brooks family since 1919. Brooks and Conlon began the business in 1982 after working together in the coal mining industry for several years. B&B is proud to offer our clients their years of knowledge and credibility in the industrial marketplace. Doug grew up working for his father, Bob Brooks, who owned and operated an independent coal surface mining operation from 1957-1970, in which he sold out and bought into a larger operation, SHEMCO Surface Mining. Bob did this in order to force Doug to go to college. Doug attended Tennessee Technological University and obtained a bachelors degree in Industrial Technology while working at Teledyne Still-Man and SHEMCO Surface Mining. Just prior to joining SHEMCO, Doug met his future operating partner, Frank Conlon. Doug was performing backhoe service work for Frank, and Frank jumped right in to assist him. After joining SHEMCO, Doug had been so impressed with Frank when they met previously that he offered Frank a position and they worked together for several years. After graduation in 1974 the coal industry was booming. The State and the Federal Government tried to regulate coal, but their policies conflicted and regulations forced strip mining out of East Tennessee in 1982. Doug then fell back on his machining skills gained through his degree. He started to independently repair high dollar parts in transmissions and torques that could not be repaired before. He needed a name for his new business and since he was using the building owned by his father, Brooks & Brooks - or B&B seemed to make the most sense. The people he did the machine work for questioned him why he was not re-building the transmissions and torques himself since he had such superior expertise. This set the stage to expand B&B and Doug contacted Frank once again to help him operate his new endeavor. The ...