Benham Publishing Businesss Magazines February 2014 | Page 32

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Broadbent Stanley
With a heritage stretching back some 130 years in the manufacture of large
capacity lathes, Halifax, West Yorkshire based Broadbent Stanley is one of the
oldest established machine tool company’s in the UK - but is no slouch when it
comes to ‘state of the art technology’.
In addition to their current range of world beating, large capacity manual, oil

cases (pipes) up to 10 metres in length, and catering for all types of drill

country lathes, they also offer a range of large capacity, flat and slant bed

heads, stabilisers, fishing tools and hydroclean bars, it appeals to both OEMs

machines utilising the latest in CNC controllers and drives.

and repair shops. With sales in excess of 50 units, the Yorky has been further

Says Managing Director, Graham Thomas “For more than 50 years we have

developed with the addition of a fourth axis enabling melon and double helix

been a major supplier to the oil, gas and petrochemical industries around the

forms to be ground.

world with our horizontal and vertical turning lathes, planomills, horizontal
borers and VMCs, but in more recent years adding the class leading Yorky
Type ‘O’ range of oil field grinders to our portfolio.”

There is also a Yorky type ‘R’ variant, manufactured exclusively for grinding
rubber rolls up to 10 metres in length producing all types of forms including
plain, taper, convex and concave along with all t