Yard crane

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Andy W
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Yard crane

Postby Andy W » Mon Aug 08, 2016 8:36 pm

I was passing through a junk yard last week and came across several treasures:
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Does anyone have any ideas of the crane's origins?
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Jol Wilkinson
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Re: Yard crane

Postby Jol Wilkinson » Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:31 am

Steam powered and rail mounted (but not self propelled), so perhaps designed for fairly intensive and mobile use, perhaps in a large coal depot or an industrial works.

The plate appears to say Engineers and London but I can't make out the name(s). Couldn't you have had a scrape at it, Andy?

On the subject of Yard cranes, there is (was last year anyway), a crane in a Woodbridge boatyard, believed to be a GER hand cranked yard crane from Woodbridge station goods yard. It may still be there and up for grabs as they were considering disposing of it.

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Re: Yard crane

Postby Guy Rixon » Tue Aug 09, 2016 11:37 am

It looks like "Reid & Cove, Engineers, London" but Google doesn't show any historic references to Reid & Cove. Cove engineering do cranes, but they were only incorporated in 2004.

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Re: Yard crane

Postby Andy W » Tue Aug 09, 2016 12:21 pm

I was being watched so didn't feel comforable scraping off the grime. I'll try and re-visit.
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