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John Lang and Sons

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From ‘1891 The Practical Engineer’
1932 (from ‘A Shipbuilding History’)

John Lang and Sons of Johnstone, nr Glasgow were machine tool manufacturers

  • 1873 Company founded.
  • 1894 Surfacing and boring Lathe
  • 1911: 12 inch Centre Lathe
  • 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.
  • 1961 Lathe manufacturers, machine tool makers and engineers. 800 employees.


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