Compressor safety

[Dave Mann]

We had a reputation for fabricating the crankcases and when the Americans started building them we sent a guy over to help setting them up so that after welding there was enough material to allow for machining.

[Denis Sweeney]

I did my with apprenticeship with a British Engineering Contractor, Humphrey’s and Glasgow and spent part of those years in a vessel fabricator Edwin Danks of Oldbury in the Black Country and also several months in the Babcock and Wilcox welding school in Tipton all in the late 60’s.
We used John Thompson on many contracts but like so many Vessel and Heat Exchanger fabricators they all sadly disappeared as our heavy engineering industry folded before our eyes. The list of fabricators that went bust was too many to list here.
The bulk of the design and engineering contractors in London met the same fate and those that survived ended up relying on European, Japanese and then South Korean suppliers.
When I retired there were a number of engineers who retired at around the same time, over 500 years of engineering nous was lost forever.