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Priestman Brothers was an engineering company based in Kingston upon Hull, England that manufactured diggers, dredgers, cranes, and other industrial machinery. In the later 1900s the company also produced the Priestman Oil Engine, an early design of oil fuelled internal combustion engine.

In 1895 bad debts and a decline in sales made the company insolvent, the business was reformed.

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Priestman Brothers was an engineering company based in Kingston upon Hull, England that manufactured diggers, dredgers, cranes, and other industrial machinery. In the later 1900s the company also produced the Priestman Oil Engine, an early design of oil fuelled internal combustion engine.

In 1895 bad debts and a decline in sales made the company insolvent, the business was reformed.


Priestman crane, Albert Dock, Hull (2007)
The company was reformed and began business again; after the First World War its products were used in the rebuilding of French villages, in 1921 a machine for digging field drainage drains was produced and the company received investment from the Ministry of Agriculture.[3]

The company constructed a factory in Marfleet, Hull in 1950, which eventually covered 63 acres (250,000 m2).[3]

In 1928 production of excavators named after animals began; models named "Lion", "Tiger" and "Panther" were produced.

The company merged with Coles Cranes of Sunderland in 1970.

In 1972 the Steels Group, Priestman's parent company, was taken over by the Acrow Group.

The Priestman division was sold off in 1984 and was eventually merged with Coles Cranes. The remnants of the company are owned by Gardner Denver, and it no longer manufactures cranes or excavators.

The Priestman Grab & VC Excavators Divisions were sold to RB International, this business continues to be supported by Delden Cranes Ltd., through their RB Cranes Division.

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