SKF 21306CC crankshaft double row spherical roller bearing

Goss's by any chance? Back when we made stuff???

As I understand it, the biggest concern with Norton cranks is the cast iron flywheel grenading at high revs, but always interesting to see potential improvements elsewhere.
Not Goss's but a company in Claughton on Brock near Garstang, called Wood & Stirling. We made unwind stands, laminators, glue stations, & complete lines for the paper converting industry. I worked there as a CNC miller, turner, fitter etc. A good place to work with a decent boss, but sadly went into receivership after thirty odd years in business. I worked there for eleven years.
A few weeks ago I drove along a road where I started my apprenticeship forty four years ago. Along this road there was at that time, around a dozen small & medium engineering companies. Now there is only two sheet metal firms. All the toolmakers & general machine shops have gone. What the bloody hell do young people leaving school actually do?
 
Not Goss's but a company in Claughton on Brock near Garstang, called Wood & Stirling. We made unwind stands, laminators, glue stations, & complete lines for the paper converting industry. I worked there as a CNC miller, turner, fitter etc. A good place to work with a decent boss, but sadly went into receivership after thirty odd years in business. I worked there for eleven years.
A few weeks ago I drove along a road where I started my apprenticeship forty four years ago. Along this road there was at that time, around a dozen small & medium engineering companies. Now there is only two sheet metal firms. All the toolmakers & general machine shops have gone. What the bloody hell do young people leaving school actually do?
Ahhh... I see. I live a couple of miles up the road - in probably the last operational mill village in t'district if not in t'county.
Grew up in Leyland, which was once famous for something or other... served my time there, same as my dad, same as his dad before him. Now its biggest employer is a Pizza factory!
 
Not Goss's but a company in Claughton on Brock near Garstang, called Wood & Stirling. We made unwind stands, laminators, glue stations, & complete lines for the paper converting industry. I worked there as a CNC miller, turner, fitter etc. A good place to work with a decent boss, but sadly went into receivership after thirty odd years in business. I worked there for eleven years.
A few weeks ago I drove along a road where I started my apprenticeship forty four years ago. Along this road there was at that time, around a dozen small & medium engineering companies. Now there is only two sheet metal firms. All the toolmakers & general machine shops have gone. What the bloody hell do young people leaving school actually do?
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Ahhh... I see. I live a couple of miles up the road - in probably the last operational mill village in t'district if not in t'county.
Grew up in Leyland, which was once famous for something or other... served my time there, same as my dad, same as his dad before him. Now its biggest employer is a Pizza factory!
My wifes late father was in senior management at Leyland in the sixties & seventies. He left in despair when he could see that the people in charge at the very top didn't have a clue. Leyland truck & bus had more than a 50% share of the British market, but seemed to have a lack of vision for the future. Just one example was wasting millions building a test track, when the rest of the motor industry were happy to use MIRA. All the DAF badged lorries that come out of there now are merely assembled from parts from all over the world, where Leyland used to make most of their own parts.
 
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My wifes late father was in senior management at Leyland in the sixties & seventies. He left in despair when he could see that the people in charge at the very top didn't have a clue. Leyland truck & bus had more than a 50% share of the British market, but seemed to have a lack of vision for the future. Just one example was wasting millions building a test track, when the rest of the motor industry were happy to use MIRA. All the DAF badged lorries that come out of there now are merely assembled from parts from all over the world, where Leyland used to make most of their own parts.
My last job there in the late '80s was fitting out the cabs prior to assembly onto the chassis. The cabs now arrive pre-assembled from France.
Totally agree about the 'Tech Centre' (including the test track); similar facilities already existed within Leyland - I grew up on a farm next door to the original test track.
I don't think the change in government in '79 helped much either.
 
My wifes late father was in senior management at Leyland in the sixties & seventies. He left in despair when he could see that the people in charge at the very top didn't have a clue. Leyland truck & bus had more than a 50% share of the British market, but seemed to have a lack of vision for the future. Just one example was wasting millions building a test track, when the rest of the motor industry were happy to use MIRA. All the DAF badged lorries that come out of there now are merely assembled from parts from all over the world, where Leyland used to make most of their own parts.
Kinda like Mack Truck. All their own engines, transmissions, drive axles. Back when.
 
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