1600/80 ton Horizontal Hydrostatic Extrusion Press, views taken under construction and on site during commissioning, O/No. 65630, c.1967

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• Most impressed with your website. I worked for the Hydraulic Engineering Co Chester from 1969 to 1984. We had a Sales Engineer, Garfield James, who had worked for Fielding and Platt. I was a young man in the DO but he was a real gentleman who hailed from the Forest of Dean. I also have a F & P catalogue dated 1896.

  Ed: Robert, many thanks for your contribution. Garfield James left F & P in 1975 and so I guess he may have worked in Chester for a period of time. I got to know Roy Whittingham very well when Chester Hydraulics became part of Fielding & Platt International. I do recall visiting the works in the early 1970s when F & P sub contracted to Chester the build of some Redman bumper bar hydraulic power packs. I am sure that viewers would like to see illustrations of the 1896 catalogue. John B

  By Robert Griffiths (23/08/2018)