George Brown Engineering News Updates
After several decades in our Leith premises, we are now fully operational from our new trading facilities and registered offices. You will find us at: 8b Macmerry Industrial Estate, Tranent, East Lothian EH33 1RD All other details remain the same, including contact telephone numbers and email addresses. There is no change to our banking details. […]
Our Automotive Department undertakes machining work for a huge number of different diesel and petrol engine types and with the steady increase in the number of electrically powered vehicles we don’t really expect to get new types of heads requiring machining. However we recently received a cylinder head from a Nissan Qashqai that required set
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Our skilled sheet metal department have just completed the installation of some additional stainless steel guardrails at the Chamber street Museum. The shape of the rail around the dinosaurs required a lot of care and attention to get correct shape to the tube. They all had to be installed during night shift workings to prevent
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The opportunity has presented itself to upgrade our facilities and as of September 2024 we will be operating out of Macmerry Industrial Estate in Tranent, just 12 miles from Edinburgh city centre. • Modern ground floor facilities extending over 15,000 sqft with minimum eaves height of 6m • Secure yard • Excellent arterial routes • Improved vehicular access and onsite parking • Established industrial estate setting After countless decades in
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We’ve just completed a substantial machining job manufactured from basic steel profiles, a stalk gripper for handling large components during forging, deceptively simple looking but plenty of detailed machining and lining up of holes to be taken care of.
In house fabrication of aluminium bracket from which the Lifting and Testing Department installed a hanging inflatable Globe. (Click on image for more photos)
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Two Victorian tram cable wheels discovered during Trams to Newhaven construction are now on display on Iona Street. Just shy of 10tonnes they were lifted and secured into position by our LEEA engineers.
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Well done to Ross Muir winning the European Amateur Snooker Championship, flying the flag for George Brown and Sons.
We received the attached picture from one of the family that shows Mr WL Brown driving his car in 1905. He was in charge of the Company from 1891 till his death in 1925. In those days cars were owned by engineers or people who could afford to employ engineers to keep their cars running
The majority of our work is for “industrial” sites where the finish isn’t the most critical factor so long as it does what it’s supposed to do . On the other hand our sheet metal department regularly produces some high class products, finished to a high degree of polish. The pictures shows some of many