Stothert & Pitt: Cranemakers to the World

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The contract covers the full refurbishment of the historic buildings including new roof structures, replacement windows, and full internal reconfiguration to create 40,000 sq ft of workspace with ancillary retail and leisure facilities. After much searching for suitable photos I've been unable to find any additional clear photos of the coaler; albeit plenty of distance fuzzy shots! It adds: "Stothert & Pitt closed in January 1989, bringing to an end a celebrated commercial enterprise which was a major employer in Bath." Along with individual units there will be a range of meeting areas, break out facilities, and amenities to engender a collaborative and inspiring environment. and HMNB Devonport in Plymouth, 1,450 tonnes of structure with a lift of 80 tonnes. Recently dismantled. [9] [10]

The four cranes on Prince’s Wharf are the last remaining of a group of eight, erected in 1951 to serve the newly-built L and M sheds. During World War II the company built tanks and miniature submarines for the War Office, as well as armaments.Supplied six 25-ton capacity cranes to Fougerolle Frères of Paris for port construction in Morocco. These were steam-powered rail-mounted cranes weighing 95 tons, with a 37 ft jib. [20] Stothert & Pitt - The Rise and Fall of a Bath Company (Millstream Books 2007), John Payne, ISBN 978 0 948975 79 0 a b Chamberlain & Ellis (2000). British and American Tanks of World War Two. Weidenfeld Military. ISBN 0-304-35529-1. Five examples of electric cranes provided in 1951 have been preserved by Bristol Museum Service at Princes Wharf. Bath Western Riverside Overview". Bath Western Riverside Construction News. Crest Nicholson . Retrieved 20 July 2022.

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." We encourage all members to play in our teams but there is no pressure to do so and if you prefer to play social games that is just fine. 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. 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.

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Historic England. "Newark Works (ex Stothert and Pitt)(Grade II) (1395130)". National Heritage List for England. 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.

c.1855 After Rayno retired the firm became Stothert and Pitt under John Lum Stothert and Robert Pitt 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. Stothert & Pitt - Cranemakers to the World' by Ken Andrews and Stuart Burroughs, Tempus Publishing, 2003 & 2011, p.77 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.

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We have free parking and buses from Bath, Bristol and Keynsham stop at the lights about 20 yards from the green. Where some other manufacturers have struggled to retro-fit hydraulic conversions to old style rollers, we prefer to leave it to these two global companies who have spent millions in R and D making their rollers bulletproof enough to survive life in the construction industry. a b "History of Stothert & Pitt the company was broken up in 1989 by a businessman called Colin Robinson (British) who was the right hand man of Robert Maxwell (Mirror Group)". Clarke Chapman. Cranes produced by the company survive throughout the World, particularly within the former Empire. Stothert & Pitt Ltd had its origins in George Stothert's (1755-1818) ironmongery business in 1785.