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The skull of a sperm whale found beached on the banks of the River Forth is now on display at the National Museum of Scotland. The 40ft whale known affectionately as ‘Moby’ became a cause célèbre after being sighted swimming up the Forth rather than out to sea. Rescuers, including BP tugs and the pleasure boat Maid of […]

We recently assisted Babcock Commercial at Rosyth with the lifting into position of the replacement crankshaft for the Northlink ferry, Hamnavoe, which operates between the mainland and the Northern Islands. The crankshaft weighs 5 tonnes and is seven metres long.  It had to be lowered through a hole cut on the car deck and then

We are constantly upgrading our processes and facilities and recently took delivery of a new 1.75m bed XYZ semi automatic lathe.  This replaces a slightly older, smaller unit that has worked well over the last seven years. The new lathe has an upgraded operating system, which will simplify the programming of the machines. We now

We went over to Koblenz in Germany to dismantle a Hobema paper folding machine from the Kimberley Clark paper factory. The machine was then shipped back to the UK, where it was re-installed at the customer’s site in Loanhead, near Edinburgh.

We were asked by the owners of the Royal Yacht Britannia to design and construct an adjustable steel cradle to support the classic racing yacht Bloodhound on the quayside during a 2 month refit programme. The Bloodhound was formerly owned by the Queen and Prince Phillip and is on display alongside the Britannia. Here you

Following a student prank, three gold-plated copper spheres disappeared from the lightning conductors at the top of St Giles’ Cathedral and George Brown & Sons were asked to replace them. Using copies of the original 100 year old drawings, exact replicas were manufactured, gold gilded and fitted back in place to help protect the thousand

We went to the top of a 65m turbine at Towie Wind Farm to pre-inspect securing bolts on a swing-away davit arm. After swinging out 90 degrees and lowering the chain to ground level, we hooked a 500kg safe working load for deflection measurement before applying a 625kg static load. The data plate was then stamped

The final and largest hull section for HMS Queen Elizabeth arrived at Rosyth and we are providing labour to remove the seafastenings securing the section to the transport barge. This will take around six twelve hour shifts prior to the barge being ‘sunk’ and the 11,400 tonne section floated off to be joined together with

In October we completed the first stage of pipework modifications to allow installation of  6 new heating circulating pumps by heating engineers Linaker Ltd. The installation work involved two separate visits during which the hotel hot water and central heating systems were drained down whilst  we welded 6” diameter steel pipe offsets in place to

We recently carried out the manufacture of six split wooden dies for one of our valued customers. The blocks started as lengths of Opepe hardwood which were cut to length and epoxied together prior to splitting and machining in our semi-automatic lathes.  The final units were dowelled together, sanded and varnished prior to delivery.