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f f { I I j M ' This new automatic 48-in. hot saw is a combination crosscut and drop capable oj cutting two 7-in. by billets side by side in approxima, nine seconds. York-Gillespie makes saw in sizes both larger and sma. Double-duty hot IN 1948 James and Charles Mac Gregor founded the York Engineer ing & Construction Company of Pittsburgh on not much more than the proverbial shoestring. Both Mac Gregors had had experience in the steel industry, and the new company specialized in designing and building steel mill equipment. Their premise was that millions are spent on high speed production mills, and yet the intermediate equipment leading to or from these mills Ls too often left in antiquated form. Since standard equipment would not usually solve these problems, there was an oppor tunity for a company that would spe cialize in the building of automatic handling equipment to meet the needs of individual plants. As business grew the company ex panded and in 1951 the Gillespie Manufacturing Company was pur chased and York-Gillespie Manu facturing Company formed. In the six years of the firm's existence their family of intermediate steel mill equipment has grown to include auto matic or semi-automatic manipu lators for round, flat, and square products, billet feeders, cooling-bed straightening combinations, billet, slab, and strip grinding machinery, coil handling, loading, and weighing equipment Tor rod and bar mills. Standard basic-steel equipment such as hot saws, shear gages, scrap balers, ingot cars, cinder ladles, and rolling mill tables arc also products manu factured by York-Gillespie. One of their latest developments an automatic hot saw designed at built for high-speed, high-prudu tion cutting of steel products. T1 saw is a combination crosscut at drop saw for cutting billets, slal structural products, etc. It has ; automatic hydraulically-opcrao saw feed, and special feedback co trols that provide constant use maximum horsepower regardless the varying thickness of the mater being evil. The 48-in. saw, shin above, with a 150-hp motor dri\ is capable of cutting two 7-in. by 7-i billets side by side in npproximan nine seconds. AH the motors and co trol equipment for the saw, were ft nished by Elliott Company's Indt trial Motor Division. This photograph of the shop test set-up oj the hot saw gives an excellent view of the Elliott C- If motors that power the saw. The large 150-hp 1200-rpm motor in the upper right is the saw drive. In the lower right is the 20-hp 1200-rpm hydraulicfeed pump motor. In between these is a % -hp 1200-rpm motor driving the lube oil pump, and at the left is a 20-hp 3600-rpm motor driving the water spray pump.