Stothert & Pitt: Cranemakers to the World

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There are plenty of these available second hand but most are already at end of life status, we search the market for the perfect few that are available each year with low hours from a gentle home, these are then tastefully restored and serviced in our workshops.

However, I've made some progress matched against the best photo of the coaler I've found. (photo from GE Sheds Part 2), showing: The Challenger tank was a development of the Cromwell tank chassis, so as to take the more powerful 17 Pounder gun. Stothert & Pitt built this tank and designed various modifications. [4] Lengthening the chassis from five roadwheels to six presented no difficulty for such an engineering firm, but designing armoured fighting vehicles was new to them and their efforts were not wholly successful. The new turret for Challenger carried the gun and its higher recoil well enough, but only by being nearly twice the height of other turrets for this chassis – making the tank a much easier target. The A30 (Avenger) tank destroyer was a similar development of a 17pdr gun on the same lengthened chassis, but had an open-topped turret 2feet lower than that of Challenger. During the development of Challenger, the prototype turret was first mounted on the even larger TOG 2. [4] Post-war era [ edit ] Historic England. "Newark Works (ex Stothert and Pitt)(Grade II) (1395130)". National Heritage List for England.This grant has been matched by the Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society, and the Trust that owns the crane. So we now have the funds to treat the metal components so it lasts another 150 years. During its working life the crane was used at Pictor`s Wharf near the Great Western Railway and at Clift Quarry on Box Hill.”

Engineering is in Eric's blood. His father worked at Fowlers in the days when this whole area of Leeds was dedicated to engine manufacture, housing not only Fowlers, but Greens, McLaren's and Hunslets. "Dad was a part of it," says Eric. Once the war started, Mr. Smith senior became part of the effort to keep up moral. "I grew up on the fairgrounds of Lancashire and Liverpool. Most of them had shut down, and it was important to keep the ones that were left running. Dad was their resident engineer," Eric explains. "I went to any number of different schools." TCN says when this is completed it will provide a creative campus with a mix of units to suit 40-50 small and medium size companies.In the period from the 1840s to 1900 the Bath company expanded rapidly. Moving from earlier premises on the north side of the river Avon, to the Newark Street Works on the south-side, then, developing the Victoria Works in the 1890s which filled the valley between the river and the Lower Bristol Road. Some early work by Stothert can still be seen on the Kennett & Avon Canal in Bath, where two very elegant iron bridges span the canal with the Stothert name on them. However, it was in the 1840s that the firm began to develop the cranes which eventually were to make them a world name in crane building. Along with individual units there will be a range of meeting areas, break out facilities, and amenities to engender a collaborative and inspiring environment. During the winter some of us play indoor bowls at the Purnells Bowling Club whilst others play short mat bowls at local clubs. You can join any of these groups, new members are always welcome. We have free parking and buses from Bath, Bristol and Keynsham stop at the lights about 20 yards from the green. A year after the move, Eric, with the help of his eldest son Simon, began work on his new roller. "I thought, I'll just get myself together and I'll make something," he recalls.

Eric possesses an almost stereotypical Yorkshire accent and, in conversation, will intersperse his words with 'lass' or 'lad' as the situation demands. "Here's a 4AR Auto-Roller. We put in new hydraulic equipment, renovate them and sell them on," Eric tells this lass, before whisking me on to the next machine, built by Stothert and Pitt Ltd. in the 1960s. His pride and joy is a Fowell roller, which had served the grass tennis courts of Wimbledon for forty years. "It was going to go in a skip," he says, in horror. A magnificent Barford and Perkins 3A Motor Roller from the 1930s was saved from a similar fate when Eric rescued it from a scrap yard ten years ago. Having restored it to its former glory, he donated it to the Shildon Locomotion Museum, near Consett in Co. Durham.

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In 1837, Henry Stothert, brother of the younger George, set up an ironworks in Bristol, first as Henry Stothert & Co., then, joined by Edward Slaughter, Stothert, Slaughter & Co. Slaughter had earlier formed Slaughter & Co. at his Avonside Ironworks, later and better known as Avonside. This works produced some substantial iron engineering including a swivel bridge over the river Frome, several of the first engines for Brunel's Great Western Railway and the Bristol and Exeter Railway, as well as 14 engines for the Brighton and South Coast Railway. The 16-month build programme commenced in late-August and it is scheduled to be completed and ready for businesses to move in by December 2021.