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[[Image:FTaylor-Hydra.jpg|thumb|Hydracrane. ]] | [[Image:FTaylor-Hydra.jpg|thumb|Hydracrane. ]] | ||
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[[image:Im1955v200-p856bb.jpg|thumb| 1955. Jumbo joins [[Manchester Airport]].]] | [[image:Im1955v200-p856bb.jpg|thumb| 1955. Jumbo joins [[Manchester Airport]].]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:07, 25 July 2020
of Bolton Road, Salford. Had factories in Pendleton and Glazebury (1945).
They were best known for their snoop nosed crane the Jumbo, which was more a lifter than a crane. They were the first company to produce cranes with a slewing jib and with hydraulics.
1895 Company founded.
1938 Private company.
1945 Second works at Glazebury established. [1]
1946 Hydracrane. Based on an ex-army Morris transport vehicle with a strong 4 wheel drive chassis. It was powered by a 24 h.p petrol engine and had 5 forward gears and a reverse gear.
Onto this chassis they followed the original idea of a non-slewing jib with a simple hook raised and lowered by hydraulic rams. [2]
1947 Name changed.
1959 Steels Engineering Products took over F. Taylor and Sons of Manchester who had developed a totally hydraulic crane.
1959 Incorporated into Coles Cranes. [3]
1961 Belting and mobile crane manufacturers.