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Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00152
Broadbent's hollow spindle lathe threading a drill at Weir Engineering, Doha, Qatar. Graham King is the machinist. 1979.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00151
Derek Pollard, fitter, in the machine shop, June 1998. Note the big planer at the far end. The planer was fitted into an 8 feet (2.5 m) deep pit so that it would clear the overhead crane. Due to the water table level in this area, a water pump had…
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00150
Alan Beardsley in the fitting shop. June 1998.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00149
Ronnie Robinson working his Horizontal Boring machine. June 1998.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00144
Machine in fitting bay, the despatch bay is in the background
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00143
Multi spindle moulder, used for making skirting boards etc. Douglas Parker holding the sheet.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00142
Machine for head rounding and bevelling barrel lids, in the packing bay.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00141
Large planing machine for long beam, mqade for the Mercy docks and Harbour Board. Herbert Ellison and Eric Warrington, on left , Albert Cockroft with his back to the camera. c 1961
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00140
Saw sharpening and setting machine
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00139
Veneer peeler
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00137
Horizontal log bandsaw in fitting shop. c1950
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00136
Machine/fitting shop. See the big crane, the driver was John Cockroft whose father was the architect of the trestle bridge at Blake Dean.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00135
Large planing machine for Mersey Docks and Harbour Board for making lock gates, in fitting shop looking towards old mill bottom. Eric Warrington and Herbert Ellison are both in the picture.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00133
Derek Pollard on left, Roy Baker on right, both fitters working on a two drum sanding machine. In background is the centre lathe turning department. Roy later became the dynamite worker on the building of the M62.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00132
c1967, a gang chain morticer. Wilie Cole.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00130
c1935. Vertical log saw, here it was in the fitting shop, after building extension it became the machine shop.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00129
Double ended tenoning machine in fitting shop, looking toward the old mill bottom.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00128
Horizontal log bandsaw.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00127
View from fitting shop into a machine shop. The drawing office can be seen through the glass window, note the heating pipes in the roof truss.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00122
c1960. Machine for making wool "Tops".
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00121
Percy Pollard inspecting missing tooth on gear wheel on No 1 motion shaft. This other gear wheel is connected to the main drive electric motor.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00120
View of high pressure cylinder, note the flywheel and connecting rod.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00115
The parallel motion piston connecting rod to beam.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00113
This boiler ran the steam engine and, heated the mill, and washed the wool. The hopper and automatic stokers were made by "Proctors" of Burnley.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00109
c1960, flywheel, governor, starting handle.