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Thomas Smith & Sons Ltd. 5-ton steam crane
Five ton, four wheel, steam loco crane built by Thomas Smith & Sons (Rodley) Ltd, Leeds, 1925, builder’s no. 10,373. Obtained 1969 from Thomas H. Howell Ltd, Newport Works. Restored 1999 by Vale of Glamorgan Railway Society.
The crane was steam-driven and worked in the steel stock-holding yard of Thomas Howell of Newport. From the time the new crane was purchased in 1925 until its retirement in 1969 it had been operated by the same driver (Source: Welsh Industrial & Maritime Museum Guidebook, 1984).
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
69.297
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Thomas H. Howell Ltd.
Association Type: company name
Date: 20th century
Creation/Production
Thomas Smith & Sons Ltd.
Acquisition
Donation, 11/11/1969
Measurements
Length
(mm): 4950
jib
(mm): 15300
Width
(mm): 3000
Height
(mm): 4572
Weight
(tons): 30
Material
metal
wood
Location
In store
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