Kirkstall Forge anvil manufacturing - any material?

[Jon Davis Books]

Hi I sell second-hand books and I have a US customer who is interested in purchasing material (books, or anything similar) relating to Kirkstall Forge. He's particularly interested in the anvil manufacturing he says took place there.If anyone can help, please contact me at [email protected] thanks.

[String o' beads]

A quick search threw up this:http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Searc ... 0-1954+A.D.

[Jon Davis Books]

Thank you but he already has this book. I believe he's looking for more obscure material, perhaps plans, designs, etc for the manufacturing processes, perhaps old trade catalogues, which I guess might be in the possession of someone who once worked there. It's a long shot I know....

[Trojan]

I remember a programme on TV about the Bristol double deckers - like the ones in Keighley, it was narated by John Peel and I remember him saying that the classic Bristol power train was Gardner diesel, David Brown gear box and Kirkstall back axle. Presumably Blakey will be able to confirm or deny this memory.

[Uno Hoo]

Quite a high proportion of Bristol buses had Bristol engines - the AVW. This was probably equally compatible with the Kirkstall axle.

[Trojan]

Uno Hoo wrote: Quite a high proportion of Bristol buses had Bristol engines - the AVW. This was probably equally compatible with the Kirkstall axle. I'm not a road transport expert - I was brought up in the plant industry where the Caterpillar diesel engine is revered. I remember a customer of mine, a Gardner enthusiast, who ran Foden trucks and Caterpillar loaders saying that he noticed on a visit to the Cat HQ in Peoria Ill. the only competitive engine the Cat engineers had any time for was the Gardner. (Cat build truck engines for the big Yankee rigs like Mack and Whites) They had one in their research labs.