Sheffield is home to one of the biggest engineering workshops in the Western hemisphere that dates back 180 years. It is where the world’s tunnel boring machine makers and mine operators come to have the heavy-duty components manufactured that few other workshops can handle. Will Stirling gets a taste of fire and steel at DavyMarkham.
Step in to the 175,000 sq ft main workshop at DavyMarkham and you step into another world. This is proper heavy engineering, the type of company that few people who live south of Birmingham are aware even exists in modern Britain. Here, giant 350-tonne-rated gantry cranes move high above your head, teams of skilled welders…
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