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...