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Brisbane Moss Corduroys: Dyers and Finishers of velvets, velveteens, cords and suedettes, Bridgeroyd Mills, Eastwood.

Bill Sayer on the old velveteen cutters in 1986. The machines were eventually phased out in 1990.

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Brisbane Moss Corduroys: Dyers and Finishers of velvets, velveteens, cords and suedettes, Bridgeroyd Mills, Eastwood.

Bill Sayer on the old velveteen cutters in 1986. The machines were eventually phased out in 1990.

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David Green, right, foreman cutter, and Donald Cockroft operating the new machinery, 1986.

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Drill string pipe machining drill connection for drilling rigs. Situated in Southern Sudan.

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Machining part of valve assembly in Southern Sudan

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Ronnie Robinson working his Horizontal Boring machine. June 1998.

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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…

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Broadbent's hollow spindle lathe threading a drill at Weir Engineering, Doha, Qatar. Graham King is the machinist. 1979.

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Hollow spindle lathe with a "grey" well head fixed to the chuck by T bolts. South Sudan, 1981.

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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…

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Derek Pollard at the big planing machine in its special pit. 1998. See DEP00176 for picture of the pit during demolition.

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Hollow spindle lathe threading machine for making a cross-over sub connection. At Chevron Exploration Co, El Muglad, Sudan, 1982.

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Heat transfer cylinder. Derek Pollard installed this Broadbent special purpose lathe at the Serck Heat Transfer Company Birmingham.
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