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British Industrial History
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Paterson Hughes Engineering Co
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Paterson Hughes Engineering Co Ltd., of Charlotte Lane, Glasgow.
Maker of Industrial handling systems.
1925 Supplied sand elevating and conveying equipment to new foundry in Sheffield[1]
1960s Maker of foundry plant.
1963 G. Paterson was a director[2]
1970 Gavin C. Paterson was managing director[3]
1973 Supplied Stor-Trak overhead conveyor system to the Austin Morris factory at Cowley, and a body assembly line and storage equipment for the Speke factory of Triumph[4]
By 1977 was part of Capper-Neill[5]
- Goliath cranes, sometimes called portal cranes, are similar to overhead travelling cranes, but instead of running on rails at high level, or on a free standing gantry structure, they run on rails on the floor. One of the advantages of a goliath crane is that the absence of support gantry rails can save money.