British Steel Piling Co
of London and Claydon (near Ipswich).
1905 Formed by Edward Le Bas
1921 Made treble-drum steam-driven skid-mounted winch for Auckland Harbour Board (NZ).[1]
1924 Changed their address from Dock House, Billiter-street, E.C. 3 to 54 a, Parliament-street, London, S. W. 1.[2]
1930 The Edward Le Bas Investment Trust was formed to acquire at least 9 tenths of the shares in Le Bas Tube Co, British Steel Piling Co, Le Bas (West Africa) Ltd., Edward Le Bas and Co[3]
1930 Description of 'Transit' lorry-mounted concrete mixer, introduced to the UK by The British Steel Piling Company, Limited, 54a, Parliament-street, Westminster, who were the concessionaires for the Paris Transit mixer used in the United States. The first demonstration wagon had a Paris mixer mounted on a Sentinel rigid six-wheeled chassis. It had a capacity of 5 cubic yards, and was fitted with Bromilow and Edwards hydraulic end tipping gear.[4]
1930 Description of pile driving plant for Adelaide Harbour. It was designed for driving reinforced-concrete piles, 24 in. square, 70 ft. long, and weighing 15 tons, to their full depth in the ground, either vertically or with a rake up to 1 in 3, in either direction. Over water, the piles were required to be driven so that their heads were at a maximum depth of 10 ft. below the level of the rails on which the piling frame was supported. The specification required the frame to be capable of rotating from a quarter to a half of a revolution about a vertical axis, to pick up a pile, and of returning with the pile to the driving position. Actually, however, the plant was constructed so as to allow the frame, together with the swivelling carriage carrying the winch and boiler, to rotate on the undercarriage through a complete circle, the plant being stable in any position, and under all conditions of working, without the use of guy ropes. See photographs of the machine as erected at the works at Claydon, Suffolk.[5]
1968 Piles for Tilbury Docks [6]
1972 renamed Edward Le Bas[7]
Renamed BSP International Foundations and part of Tex Holdings
Now (2024) named BSP-TEX, with HQ in Great Blakenham, Ipswich. See BSP-TEX history wepage.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1922/05/05 p506
- ↑ The Engineer 1924/03/21
- ↑ The Times Oct. 25, 1930
- ↑ Engineering 1930/05/16
- ↑ Engineering 1930/01/10
- ↑ The Engineer 1968/01/26 p194
- ↑ The Times Sept. 13, 1972