100 years ago today

100 years ago today

The Newark Advertiser’s “100 Years ago today” column, featured Abbotts this week. Brace yourselves – It’s slightly less boring than you might think – and stirring stuff too..  Picture Below  The text reads: Ald. J.C Wright...
100 years ago today

Gordon sizes up his next job !

Gordon knows how to tackle this – with a conservative estimate of 5 vessels a week (not all this big) he’s assembled and welded over 8000 Vessels over the last 37 years at Abbotts – not limited to welding, Gordon keeps us supplied with eggs &...
100 years ago today

Industrial and Marine silencers

For many years we have manufactured industrial and marine CE marked and ASME designed for some of our highly valued (and rather clever when it comes to sound attenuation) clients – they do the tricky stuff on silencer design and we do the pressure vessel...
100 years ago today

Starter Motor for a warship anyone

Since making boilers for the admiralty in 1870 we continue to make compressed air start vessels for the main Diesel engines for Royal Navy contractors The 1500 ltr 40 bar compressed air start receivers being painted here are designed and built to Lloyds Naval rules...
100 years ago today

Will it fit out the door ?

“Almost probably” was the confident answer ….   …  followed by the buzz of a stihl saw and 8 inches of brickwork removed from either side – British engineering problem solving at its finest ! This was 2005 before we...
100 years ago today

WW1 – Abbott Role of Honour

A summer holiday visit to Ypres in Flanders Field Museum and the National Memorial Arboretum prompts a worthy dusting off and digital ‘remembrance’ of Abbotts WW1 Role of honour below – lest we forget.  Puts our woes of today into...
100 years ago today

Ready for a new challenge

Abbotts works bike has been dusted off for a fresh challenge in support of local Beaumond House Hospice – any suggestions and support welcome !    The British designed & built  Boardman bike serviced by Andy Swain in Southwell tel...
100 years ago today

Abbotts Twitter

Check out out Twitter feed for lighter hearted moments   Tweets by pressurevessel   Tweets by...
100 years ago today

A lorry Full and not a “Shed Load”

These two vessels fit ‘snugly’ on this curtain sider on their way to a power plant in Europe – a vapouriser vessel and a buffer vessel – the former to be fitted with a heat exchanger on site – paint finish is two pack and should look good...
100 years ago today

Filter vessels

Some clients seem to want to fill our vessels with filter mediums of all sorts – we are delighted to design the vessel to cope with this and other operating parameters  – pressurised filter vessels often require a mesh or grid to support the medium...
100 years ago today

Abbott Brand Image

Photo below of Abbotts brand – this is the real deal rather than something dreamt up by a London design agency !   It hangs on an old nail in our archives – but was probably heated in the furnace and used to burn the brand into packing cases...
100 years ago today

Pressure Test Research Project Success

Once the spreadsheets & formulae have been exhausted and you really want to know  – let us have a bash ! We have been using our expertise in vessels and controlled pressure to safely pressure test various materials to destruction. The test rig below is...