02-02-05, 16:52
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Professor Alan Earnshaw says:
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It is actually much older than that as this crane was built by Cowans Sheldon in 1927 as a batch produced for the Admiralty office
I have appended a picture of order/works number 5329, which along with 5330 was supplied to HM Dockyard Portsmouth. Order 5326 and 5328 were allocated to HM Dockyard Chatham, and 5328 to HM Dockyard Rosyth. Other cranes to this pattern were supplied to the Admiralty office in 1930, 1931 and 1937.
Hope this is of interest.
The attached picture features on Page 64 of my book Carlisle’s Crane-Makers – The Cowans Sheldon Story.
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Last edited by David_Hayward (RIP); 02-02-05 at 16:59.
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