OVERVIEW
In the days of horse and buggies when most women were home doing chores, Mary Brandon was out starting the very first moving company in Palm Beach County, Brandon Transfer & Storage Company. That was in 1919. In 1928, Mary and Brandon joined the leading moving and warehousemen in major cities as a charter agent for Allied Van Lines.
Mary was quite a pioneer – even in politics. Always politically active, she became the first woman to hold public office in Palm Beach County. Years later, a park was named in her honor. Mary ran Brandon for nearly thirty years until it was purchased by her nephew Herbert Lewis.
Herb Lewis expanded the business and moved it to its present location on Tuxedo Ave. in 1951. A state-of-the-art warehouse with a fur vault, wine storage and air-conditioning was built to stand up to the south Florida weather. Twenty-four hour surveillance and sprinkler systems have since been installed to protect fine furnishings and artwork from Palm Beach’s finest homes.
The Lewis family still runs the business today. Herb Lewis’s children, Steve Lewis and Susan Miller now run the operation.
“A lot has changed since Aunt Mary’s day,” says Steve Lewis. “ We drive stream lined tractor trailers with satellite navigation systems. Many sleepers now come complete with washer dryers. But we strive to maintain the same customer service Aunt Mary and my father did.”
While household moving has been our foundation, we have developed specialties to keep the crews busy all year. We locate factories and industrial plants, provide rigging and crane service for the heaviest loads and deliver hard to handle statues and artwork.
One of our unique specialties is provided by our medical equipment moving division. Hospitals all over the state contract with us to rig, move and set up their live cat scans, mri’s, and gamma knife equipment. Once rigged into the building, these multi-million dollar pieces for equipment are placed on air-skates and pushed effortlessly through hospital corridors.
As an agent for Allied Van Lines, Brandon has agents all over the world to assist with origin and destination services. Allied is the nations #1 mover and Brandon Transfer is rated by Allied’s Gallup group as EXCELLENT!