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Post #1 by canaldrifter » Sat May 12, 2012 11:46 pm

Whilst researching something else i stumbled over this 1953 clip of the NCK plant at Thorncliffe in 1953, from 18 mins in:

http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/film/thorncliffe-story-enterprise-its-seventh-generation

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Post #2 by XS650 » Sun May 13, 2012 8:35 am

A different world indeed , pouring molten steel in shirt sleeves ! good find :thumbup:
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Post #3 by Ian Fletcher1970 » Sun May 13, 2012 9:12 pm

Good find there Tony :gooodpost: :gooodpost:

Takes me back to my apprenticeship at the now defunct Butterley Engineering in Ripley Derbyshire. And lets not forget the section showing the making of the famous Izal Toilet paper!!! :roll: :roll:

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Post #4 by neilc » Sun May 13, 2012 10:51 pm

Wow h+s hand ringers would have a field day in there, that's proper engineering, good call, didn't N+C have a manufacturing tie with an American dragline manufacturer hence the k in the company title. Sheffield is a very different place now from the one I travelled around by rail in the early 80s. Its heavy industry and associated metal trades have been decimated and it was bad enough in the late 70s early 80s, still a glimse back to the days when we were still a work shop to the world. Regards neilc

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Post #5 by XS650 » Mon May 14, 2012 8:47 am

Yes NCK stood for Newton Chambers Koehring , Koehring being the American bit , funny how both our biggest excavator crane makers used American licenced designs .
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Post #6 by FOWLER MAN » Mon May 14, 2012 10:06 am

XS650 wrote:Yes NCK stood for Newton Chambers Koehring , Koehring being the American bit , funny how both our biggest excavator crane makers used American licenced designs .


Yes Craig,
In fact the link to American designs is even closer than you might think.
Newton Chambers first produced "NCH" machines.
These were made under licence to American "P&H" designs. It was only in 1947 when the licence expired that they got into bed with Koehring and the "NCK" name and designs appeared.
In 1958 the "NCK Rapier" name appeared when they took over Ransomes & Rapier who had themselves previously produced machines to American "Marion" designs.
Fred

P.S. The Neal Unit and Blaw Knox (Insley) are also examples of British Companys using U.S. excavator designs.


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