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NCK 
Type Mechanical Engineers Industry Heavy equipment Founded 1794 Headquarters Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK Products Cranes, spares, fabrication Owner(s) SPW Website SPW group [1] NCK (Newton Chambers Koehring), started as a subsidiary of Newton, Chambers & Company, a large engineering company based in Sheffield, England. They produced the range of NCK agricultural equipment, skimmers, excavators, cranes and draglines that were renowned for high quality and long life, typically over 20 years. Some NCK machines are still operational.[1]
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History
The company started as iron founders in 1794 and expanded in Victorian times to include coal and iron mining. They diversified into equipment manufacture and in 1947 the company started producing the American brands of Koehring excavators under the Newton Chambers Koehring, name, NCK [2] and in 1958 they took over Ransomes and Rapier building excavators, drag-lines, port cranes and other construction equipment under the NCK - Rapier brand . With the decline in coal and the improvements in hydraulic machines, the company diversified into light fabrication. The company was taken over in 1972 by the holding company Central and Sheerwood. NCK later was sold to Robert Maxwell's media group as part of a wider deal, but Maxwell was not interested in cranes and NCK became inactive. Cliffe Holdings then bought the company , later Staffordshire Public Works bought the company in 1997 after it fell again into receivership. NCK launched a new model, the 90T Astra crane in 2009 but it was not successful. The only other UK crawler crane business Ruston-Bucyrus, RB also stopped manufacture in 2009. The last crawler crane supplied by NCK was a Nova in 2001. SPW now runs and active spares and overhaul business for its cranes [3] and fabricates NCK plant to order as well as manufacturing traffic control and filtration equipment.
NCK Plant list
NCK 41, 95, 305, 406, 407, 605, 1000, 1405, 1405B, 1405C, 1405D, 1495C, 305B, 334B, 335T, 350B, 406D, 570T, 605 2B, 605-2A, 605-2B, Rapier, 605-2C, 60HT, 70D, 70DWT, 80D, Ajax, Andes, Atlas C54B, C110, C110 Eiger, C120, C120 Eiger, C34B, C34B Pennine, C40, C40 Pennine, C40/2A Pennine, C41B, C41B ANDES, C41C, Andes, C50, C50 Europa, N.C.K. C54 Atlas, C54B, C60, C75 Ajax, CB54, EIGER C120, H17, H17 Rapier, H5, H7, H7 Rapier, HC170, HC170 Olympus, HC250-HL330, HC65, HC75, HC80, HF17, HFC80, HK30, HS14, HY17
See also
- Crane (machine)
- Dragline excavator
- Excavator
- Heavy equipment
- Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies
- Ruston-Bucyrus
References
- ^ NCK 305 Dragline video (2010)accessed on 1st August 2010 from:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmDH967Sy0g
- ^ Historical Construction Equipment Association (2010) accessed on 2 August 2010 from: http://archives.hcea.net/?p=core/search&creatorid=365
- ^ Cranes . The Independent Magazine of the Cranes industry (2010). Crawler manufacturer NCK fails again.http://www.cranestodaymagazine.com/story.asp?storycode=2005327. accessed 1st August 2010
External links
- NCK Construction Plant at wikia.com
Categories:- Engineering companies of the United Kingdom
- Construction equipment manufacturers
- Companies established in 1794
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