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Astin & Barkers, Salford - MOT00292
Several Todmorden firms produced or maintained the machinery used in the cotton factories. Lord Bros. produced textile machinery, often building looms to their own specification. Jeremiah Jackson was also in the machine trade as textile engineers,…
Belt driven, four speed, double headed shaping machine - DEP00293
Location unknown
Broadbent Lathe - DEP00297
In Southern Sudan
Broadbent Lathe - DEP00298
Drill string pipe machining drill connection for drilling rigs. Situated in Southern Sudan.
Broadbent Lathe - DEP00299
Machining part of valve assembly in Southern Sudan
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00149
Ronnie Robinson working his Horizontal Boring machine. June 1998.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00150
Alan Beardsley in the fitting shop. June 1998.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00151
Derek Pollard, fitter, in the machine shop, June 1998. Note the big planer at the far end. The planer was fitted into an 8 feet (2.5 m) deep pit so that it would clear the overhead crane. Due to the water table level in this area, a water pump had…
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00152
Broadbent's hollow spindle lathe threading a drill at Weir Engineering, Doha, Qatar. Graham King is the machinist. 1979.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00153
Hollow spindle lathe with a "grey" well head fixed to the chuck by T bolts. South Sudan, 1981.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00154
Leo Nicol, crane driver, in fitting shop. Leo was not tall enough for the army so he was a Bevan Boy and worked in a coal mine driving an electric narrow gauge railway engine. He then worked t Hebden Bridge gas works, then driving a crane in the…
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00155
Derek Pollard at the big planing machine in its special pit. 1998. See DEP00176 for picture of the pit during demolition.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00156
Hollow spindle lathe threading machine for making a cross-over sub connection. At Chevron Exploration Co, El Muglad, Sudan, 1982.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00157
Railway wheel lathe. c1983.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00160
72" V.T.M. vertical boring mill.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00161
Heavy duty centre lathe. c1985.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00162
Crane drum lathe. c1980.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00164
Heat transfer cylinder. Derek Pollard installed this Broadbent special purpose lathe at the Serck Heat Transfer Company Birmingham.
Computer Controlled Lathe. - DEP00195
Derek Pollard with the lathe in the fitting shop of Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd in 1998.
Copper Drying Cylinder - MOT00296
The lorry is carrying a copper drying cylinder made by Geo. Whitehead & Sons at their Salford Works. This type of cylinder was used in the sizing process at firms such as Matthew Stuttard's, Warp Sizers, of Knowlwood Mill.
Crow Carr Ings Mill - MOT00541
Looking across the former weaving shed of Crow Carr Ings Mill with its polished maple wood floor, May 1993.