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This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 71. Chapters: Crane manufacturers, Crane types, Crawler Cranes, Hydrocon Cranes, Mobile Cranes, Butterley Engineering, Cowans Sheldon, Fassi, Hanson Clutch and Machinery Co., HIAB, Iron Fairy, Iron Fairy Cranes, Kato, Konecranes, Lambert Engineering Co., New Dafang Group, Potain, Sany Group, Sennebogen, Tadano, Wolff, City crane, Crane, Crane, Crawler crane, Lorry loader cranes, Piling Rig, Rough terrain crane, Steam crane, Telescopic handler, Tower Crane, Atlas Hydraulic Loaders Ltd, Coles Cranes, Crane, Crawler crane, DEMAG, F Taylor & Sons, Harvey Frost, Hitachi, Indo Farm, Lampson, Liebherr, NCK, Palfinger, Priestman, Ruston-Bucyrus, R H Neal & Co, Steam shovel, Stothert & Pitt, Thomas Smith & Sons Ltd, Jones Cranes, Link-Belt, Manitowoc, Ransomes and Rapier, Ruston-Bucyrus 22-RB, Sennebogen, Soilmec, Lambert Engineering Co., Summerlee Heritage Park, Coles Cranes, Grove, Jones Cranes, Link-Belt, Manitowoc, NCK, Sennebogen, Terex. Excerpt: Butterley Engineering was an engineering company based in Ripley, Derbyshire, England. The company was formed from the Butterley Company which began as Benjamin Outram and Company in 1790 and existed until 2009. The remants of the crane operations were bought by Clarke Chapman to add to their other industrial crane operations. This area of Derbyshire had been known for its outcrops of iron ore which had been exploited at least since the Middle Ages. Indeed, after the Norman Conquest, nearby Duffield Frith was the property of the de Ferrers family who were iron masters in Normandy. In 1793, William Jessop, with the assistance of Benjamin Outram, constructed the Cromford Canal to connect Pinxton and Cromford with the Erewash Canal. In the process of digging the Butterley Tunnel for the Cromford Canal, quantities of coal and iron were discovered. Fortuitously, Butterley Hall fell vacant and, in 1790, Outram, with the financial assistance of Francis Beresford, bought it and its est
