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toolsntat wrote:Interesting design on the Whitehill block....
Was fiddling with one of those yesterday but it might be earlier as I don't think it has the outer angle on the clamping part.
Cheers Andy
toolsntat wrote:Here you go.
Trevanion wrote:
AndyT wrote:I'll pass over the patent summaries but pause on that appalling (by modern standards) ad from Sanderson Brothers & Newbould. Ok, it's a reminder of how ordinary racism was embedded in mainstream thinking, but it brought me up short. I've seen even worse stuff from Sheffield makers somewhere but can't find it at the moment.
In an effort to take the taste away, I can offer the information - from Simon Barley's British Saws and Saw Makers - that from the 1930s onwards Sanderson's biggest markets were in India and the Caribbean, so presumably they must have learned to moderate their ads by then.
AndyT wrote:I know that old promo material sometimes applied a teeny bit of artistic licence and made premises seem a trifle larger than they were, but that's an impressive works.
I've never noticed it when visiting Rochdale, but I think that this view from Google Earth shows more or less the same spot, with the red brick tower remaining as a little remnant of what there used to be. And maybe those older looking long sheds between Trufab and Total Smart Solutions.
A view from lower down confirms it used to be S ROBINS N AND SON, but it's a Howdens now.
Not quite so impressive somehow...
AndyT wrote:If I ever come across any obscure old books on wood machining, I check this thread to see if you haven't already got it.
No hits yet - sorry! But you do keep making it harder...
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