
Butters Brothers Crane Plate
A maker’s plate from a Butters Brothers 1-ton crane.
A maker’s plate from a Butters Brothers 1-ton crane.
A cast maker’s plate from L Sterne & Co. Ltd., refrigeration manufacturers who had their works only a 10-minute walk from the Kinetics museum.
A plastic explosive test plate from Nobel’s Explosives in Ayrshire.
A 1953 maker’s plate from a Babcock & Wilcox steam boiler.
This plate was once attached to a Glasgow-made Mavor & Coulson coal-cutting machine, but later someone made it into a Cribbage board!
The makers’ plates from an overhead gantry crane made by Babcock & Wilcox at Dalmuir – this crane was installed at B&W’s own works at Renfrew.
A maker’s plate from British Polar Engines Ltd., dating from 1973.