Albany supplied an AP5 pump for the Hebridean Princess, a small luxury cruise ship which is part of the Hebridean Island Cruises fleet. The pump was fitted to the ship when it was built in the 1960s. The pump works as a servo pump running at 960 rpm. The pump was refurbished in 1973 and […]
Fast response by Albany’s Bradford subsidiary helped a Bradford firm restart production quickly after a serious fire. Disaster struck the customer, a manufacturer of metallic fastenings for the motor industry, when an oil heat treatment line was gutted by fire. The company quickly redesigned the process to prevent a recurrence, but urgently needed nine large […]
Albany has owned the Stothert & Pitt twin screw pump design for 10 years. During that time we have made exact replacement pumps and spares and continued to do so. The picture illustrates a pump reconditioned by Albany which is in use at a dockside location in the UK. Based on these well proven designs […]
A 1.5in GA-AP080 gear pump was despatched to Spain, for installation on the MV Fortuna, Royal Yacht of His Majesty King Juan Carlos. It replaced a similar unit supplied by Albany in 1978 to pump seawater in the cooling circuit of one of the vessel’s W.H. Allen diesel engines.
Early in 2000, Albany’s Sales Department took an intriguing telephone call, enquiring if anyone knew about a water pump made in the 1930s by a company called Salaman & Handoll. The sales estimator knew his company history; Albany Pumps had been named Salaman & Handoll before being blitzed out of London and moving to Lydney […]
