Painter Brothers is a major British fabricator of structural steelwork and one of the leading producers of bolted lattice steelwork in the world.

History

Painter Brothers was founded in

Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a population ...

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in 1920 and incorporated in 1929. In conjunction with Callender's Cable and Construction Co Ltd, Painter Brothers provided the steelwork for the first Callender-Hamilton unit-construction hangars ordered by the British

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in the pre-

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rearmament programme. The company manufactured the Skylon, the iconic ‘Vertical Feature’ that was the emblematic symbol of the 1951

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. In 1955 Painter Brothers became a member of the BICC plc group of companies and now operates within the

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Power Networks Division. This has enabled the company to offer a fully integrated service that includes all aspects of overhead electrical transmission with worldwide distribution. In 1968 the company was awarded the Queen's Award to Industry for Export Achievement.

Operations

All manufacturing is carried out at the Hereford site. Accurate fabrication of all structures is achieved by the full use of computer controlled production techniques. The company specialises in the manufacture of: * Callender-Hamilton lattice girder bridge systems. * Communications masts and towers for radio and television broadcasting and for microwave and satellite communications. * Galvanised steel towers for the electrical transmission and distribution industries. * Lattice distribution poles, sub-station support steelwork,

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support structures, rail electrification gantry structures and crossarm steelwork.

Major projects

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with a reduced centre span to allow maximum clearance for shipping. *

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Rail Bridge in

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located on the main southern line between

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and the

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n border. * Crystal Palace Tower in

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. * Gorai River Bridge in

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. *

Tal-y-Cafn Tal-y-Cafn ( Welsh meaning : ''"place opposite the ferry-boat"'') is a small settlement in Conwy county borough, north Wales, in the community of Eglwysbach. It lies in the Conwy valley close to the Roman settlement of Canovium at Caerhun, a ...

Bridge in

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. The bridge is a Callender-Hamilton Type B10. *

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Bridge in

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External links

Company website

References

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