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John Lang and Sons of Johnstone, nr Glasgow were machine tool manufacturers
- 1873 Company founded.
- 1894 Surfacing and boring Lathe. [1]
- 1911: 12 inch Centre Lathe. [2]
- 1916 Private company.
- 1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with a number of lathes with their well-known system of variable speed driving by means of expanding pulleys. [3]
- 1961 Lathe manufacturers, machine tool makers and engineers. 800 employees. [4]
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 21st December 1894 p547-8
- ↑ Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
- ↑ The Engineer of 8th October 1920 p358
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE