Lamberton

Although it sounds more like a dance than a machine used on the steel works, Brian Young tells us: ”The Lamberton was used to straighten various “raw” steel sections after rolling from the 36″mill. The Lamberton was fed via rollers and skids, after straightening each bar was shoved off onto benches manually.” Tony Shaw assists with: “This is the 53″ Lamberton straightener seven shafts, this machine was recently replaced, the 26″ straightener nine shafts was replaced a few years ago.” Michael Graham tells us: ”We used two of these machines in No 9 mill Cleveland works”.

Image courtesy of Eric Johnson and  thanks to Brian Young, Tony Shaw and Michael Graham for the updates.