S&P Crane Examination

Nigel Smart is pictured demonstrating the problems that led to the failure of the Stothert & Pitt crane to the firm's Quality Manager, Tony West, at Washford on 5 February. The crane failed its annual boiler exam in 2007, and the original manufacturers, who donated the crane to the Trust on long term loan in the 1970s, offered to help the Trust identify options for its future. Believed to have been built in 1908, and thus celebrating its centenary this year, the machine is unique, being the last surviving S&P steam operated self propelled crane. The Trust Committee will consider the next steps in the light of S&P's report.

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