Goodwin Barsby

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Goodwin Barsby are a Leicestershire based manufacturer of Crushers and screens. The company was started in 1871 as an Iron foundry by Samuel Goodwin and william Barsby.^[1]

[edit] Timeline

• 1871 - Company founded by Samuel Goodwin and William Barsby.
• 1890s - Started manufacturing Crushers for the local Iron industry in Leicestershire.
• 19? Taken over by Leyland & then grouped in the 'Special products' division with Aveling Barford after Leylands reorganisation in the 1970's to form British Leyland Motor Corporation.
• 1982 - Management Buy Out (MBO) by D.I. Sydenham, D. Auty, M. Mills
• 1989 - Taken over by Boliden-Allis of Sweden.
• 199? - Boliden-Allis taken over by Svedala of Norway
• 2001 - Acquired by Metso during Nordberg / Svedala Merger.^[2]
• 2006 - GB Acquired by CMS Cepcor (European supplier of crusher & screen in plant spare parts owned by D.I. Sydenham) - from Metso.^[3] CMS was formerly Crusher Manganese Steel Ltd. before acquiring Cepcor from the South African OZZ Group in 2005.
• 2006 - GB relaunches the popular single Jaw toggle crusher.

[edit] Product range

[edit] Crushers

• Single Jaw toggle
• Double jaw toggle
• Gtanulators

[edit] Screens

• sizer screens

[edit] Historic product lines

• Goliath mobile crushers
• Cone crushers
• Screening plant

[edit] Preservation

A Goodwin Barsby Jaw crusher mounted on a trailer with feed hopper and output elevator added. used for demonstrations at Holcot Steam Rally

A number of older Goodwin Barsby crushers can be seen at some of the steam rallies in the working area.Often these are driven by a Traction engine or an early tractor like a Field Marshall with a heavy fly wheel suited to belt drive. Some smaller examples are driven by Stationary Engines.

[edit] References / sources

[edit] External links

• Official web site

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