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We welded and finished a fabricated display stand for a Gypsy Moth Engine to be displayed at a local museum.  The engine and stand had been prepared by School pupils from Knox Academy School in Haddington. The sump has been cut away to show the crankshaft and connecting rods inside the engine. The pupils carried out the work over a […]

Over the last six months we have been working with the National Library of Scotland replacing supporting brackets for their banners that hang outside the main Library on George IV Bridge in the centre of Edinburgh. The new brackets are powder coated stainless steel and are secured to the stonework with stainless steel fixings. We also

With the banners erected and the lights fitted and adjusted by the lighting consultant the final night-time effect can be seen. The lights are computer controlled and the colours changed to suit the Libraries requirements.

The picture shows a simple looking access ladder job which is in fact complicated in that the roof concerned has no sqare corners with all surfaces at peculiar angles. (Architects!) Sizes and bevels were taken and the ladder made up and measured carefully, on completion it was stripped and hot dipped galvanised that gives it  a minimum

An early start to 2019 with the arrival in Leith of the Fishery Protection Vessel Minna in preparation for a wet dock refit. The Minna generally works on the West Coast of Scotland out of Greenock carry out fishery protection duties for the authorities. With the changes to the fishing quotas and the new fish

The FRY Britannia is developing a new guest accommodation ship that is now permanently berthed in the old Alexandra Drydock that we previously used for ship repairs. The new vessel is the “Fingal”  that was originally built for the Northern Lighhouse Board. She has been extensively remodelled with additional new decks to suit her new role. We

Our engineering and sheet metal departments worked hand in hand to modify existing stainless steel tubular security cages around the stairways up to high diving boards at the Royal  Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh. The existing metal work was being damaged so we came up with arrangement of curved  sheet metal panels secured in place with larger screws. All

We attended a vessel at Grangemouth last week to undertake the welding down of  sea-fastening fixings. The cargo of large windmill blades was loaded by shore side cranes and then secured in position by welding down stoppers to stop the cargo moving and then Dee rings to allow securing chains and lashings to be fitted by

After much detailed planning and preperation we have now started work on a customers  site carrying out maintenance on a large carousel  that is approx 20m in diameter and weighs 160 tonnes. The carousel has been in use for ten years and the suporting rails on which the carousels wheels run on,  had started to

The machine shop is always having to adapt their machines to accept differant types and sizes of jobs. The picture shows a large end bearing housing from a ships generator that had a worn bearing housing. The plate would’nt fit our Webster Bennett vertical borer, but it just squeezed into the three axix bed mill. The