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Gibbons before and after!

12/28/2016

Here are a few shots showing some before and after Gibbons we supplied to Simon at Humberside Glazing Ltd for one of the the entrances to the TATA steel works site, Scunthorpe.

For this inquiry we also included our own bespoke stainless steel floor boxes and stainless steel top plates.

Above are the NOS straps plus our refurbished Gibbons (to replace the old, salt damaged, ones) and below is a close up shot of our top plate.

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Briton C door closer

12/28/2016

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On Christmas Eve despite having a bulging disc in my back (which is very painful) bought about by undoing over tightened screws from the previous Saturday at the Royal Star and Garter Home, I provided and fitted an original cast iron Briton C at the Birmingham based MG Physiotherapist Practice.

http://www.birminghamphysios.com/

The Practice is led by Michael Garmston, former head physiotherapist to the British Athletic Olympic teams Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000.

The Briton C was fitted to the inner entrance door of the Grade 2 listed Georgian property that Michael and his Team practice from.

As can be seen from the pictures this is a large door, even the Briton C looks small against it and it was in fact debated if a Briton D may have been required, the D was eventually and obviously deemed to be unnecessary as the pictures show. It should be noted however that due to the previous installation it was decided to position the C slightly off from the normal siting position so that it utilises the existing mounting holes (Jess ; ) ).

This in no way affects the actual performance of this medium to heavy weight performer!

For those interested this is a shot to show the comparative size ratio between some of the Briton range.

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Robert Adams 'Sceptre' No 21

12/12/2016

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This beautiful bronze/coppery top plate is from a property in Mayfair, London.

I was contacted by Chris Duke of CD Property Care about repair and service to the internals of a Sceptre No 21.

The internals were sent to me and I was surprised to find that the Sceptre was different to the Sceptres I have in stock as can be seen below (Chris's Sceptre is on the right). Both the carriage/yoke differs and the piston is a more 'squat' version (This may be because Chris's is the single action variant).

We got around this by swapping the springs from our Sceptre and putting them on the yoke of Chris's Sceptre, we were also sent a pin that was longer than the one in ours but fortunately we had one from elsewhere that we were able to supply.

Readers may be interested to note the similarities between our Sceptre, Chris's Sceptre the Gibbons we repaired below from a property in Harrow (already featured in a previous post) and beneath that what appears to be a heavy duty Sceptre from a recent enquiry concerning Free Mason's Hall, headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England (which I hope to have the good fortune to be able to feature in a future blog post).

Comments are always looked forward to and appreciated.

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Briton B, T- shape or pot belly internals

12/12/2016

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I have been so busy of late that I have been unable to update my blog for some time and have rather missed it.

I still do not have a great deal of time at the moment but just to keep readers interested here is a shot of a post war Briton 'B' prior to being rebuilt. This is after a strip down to service it and change the broken spring for one from our stock.

After moving to new premises we are hoping in the near future to be able to offer our customers this service on a larger scale than we currently do. This will include sizes O, A, B (as can be seen), C, D, and E. We then hope to extend this service to cover all models from most major brands as we grow.

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Gibbons before and after!

Briton C door closer

Robert Adams 'Sceptre' No 21

Briton B, T- shape or pot belly internals

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