Freshly-cooked doughnuts are an enticing weapon in the supermarkets’ drive for market share. Tesco equipped a number of its stores with machines to deep fry the dough portions. Albany Pumps are supplying two major commercial cooking equipment manufacturers with pumps for the hot oil, which is filtered and re-circulated back into the frying tank. As […]
Millions of people pass through airports and never give a thought to the fire fighting equipment. The good news is that Albany have given a lot of thought to the design, manufacture and performance of their GE and GF pumps used on foam concentrate used in fighting aviation fuel fires. When the fuel storage facilities […]
The Unipower Rapid Intervention Vehicle (RIV) was a first response airfield crash, fire and rescue vehicle. It had exceptional performance and could operate in extremes of climate. Unipower of Coventry (formerly Alvis Motors) chose a DC motor-driven Albany GE to pump foam concentrate into the water stream. The RIV is currently in triservice use with […]
Albany’s GE and GF range of foam concentrate pump sets includes 1/2in and 3/4in, Pelton wheel-driven units. These sizes are designed for lower capacity fire fighting applications, such as equipment for helicopter decks. These water-powered gear pumps will dose fluoroprotein, AFFF or detergent concentrates from drums or bulk into a high pressure water stream. Able […]
After fierce competition Albany secured an order from a major Singapore fire fighting & protection equipment specialist. The requirement was for pumps to handle 1400 litres/ minute of fire fighting foam concentrate. Eight relief valve extended bearing pattern Albany GE-HD080 pumps with 4-inch flanged connections and bare drive shafts were supplied for building into skids […]
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 […]
Albany GX Crown type gear pumps were selected by Re-Tec Manufacturing of London for a pivotal role in their design of packaged processing unit for production of fuel from waste oils. The waste, a random mix of lubricating oil and kerosene, is heated, centrifuged, filtered and blended to produce a constant viscosity and calorific value […]
Adding further to Albany’s reputation for durable products, a series of lube oil pumps are regularly returned to Lydney for overhaul. The type GT-AP120/AP130 pumps have been purchased for lube oil service on power station gas turbines. It is nothing unusual for the units being sent back to have seen 20 years use, with a […]
Allen Gears, of Pershore, Worcestershire, were about to deliver a large gearbox when the unit was failed on the grounds of noise by the inspector sent by their French customer. The problem was traced to a lubricating oil pump. An out-of-hours call to Albany Pumps found the Managing Director still at his desk. He made […]
