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Tinsley Wire - as was.


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Did Tinsley Wire make springs for cars? I had a friend that worked there if they did. If true then I have a photo of him working there. Which I could post. I can't remember if it was the same place.

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Found and scanned the image. This is Philip Greville working there making a spring in 1990.

Tinsley wire 1990.jpg

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I don't know about springs for cars. I did go there a couple of times too service a couple of Induction heaters that were used in the production of plastic coated wire in the building running parallel with Atterclife Road. At the end of the line a very large holder full of wire fed wire through straitening rollers our unit heated it to around 700C. It was then passed into a machine that extruded a green plastic coating on the wire. The coated wire then went to machines that were almost like a sort of loom that wove it into "diamond shaped" wire fencing of various widths. The wire was drawn somewhere else on the site.  

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