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John Lang and Sons

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John Lang and Sons of Johnstone, nr Glasgow were machine tool manufacturers

  • 1894 Surfacing and boring Lathe
  • 1911: 12 inch Centre Lathe
  • 1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with a number of lathes with their well-known system of variable speed driving by means of expanding pulleys.


Sources of Information

  • Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
  • The Engineer of 21st December 1894 p547-8
  • The Engineer of 8th October 1920 p358