Danarm Saw at Glenbranter from about 1955

Date Added: 05 May 2017 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 2017 Picture No: 3673

The saw is courtesy of Ian Adams of Glenbranter Forest Office who has collected a considerable amount of old forestry tools.
An early Danarm saw marketed by J Clubley Armstrong Danarm Ltd. The information on the Danarm website quoted as follows: ‘The Danarm name, synonymous with chainsaws, originated in 1941 when a designer named J.Clubley-Armstrong and the Stroud engineering Company T.H. & J. Daniels produced the first Danarm chainsaw. The first saws were powered by Villiers 2-stroke engines, from 80cc up to 350cc.’ The combination of the two names of the Daniels and Armstrong one assumes was the origin of the name of the saw.
The saw design was quite different from that of the JOBU in that it was the chain drive and it’s gearing with oil tank that rotated to accommodate the different cross cutting and felling operation modes.
The serial number on this machine is W255150. Note that the PDF has more views of the saw components.
Comments from anyone who has worked this type of saw or restored them would be very welcome.

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5 Comments

Nice. it's a Danarm Whipper with the J.A.P. engine. and Amal Carb. I have one of these here. The whipper has a rotating coupling / clutch housing so the bar and chain can be set vertically as in your photo, Horizontally, or rotated to any other angle. Because it had the normal float-bowl Amal fitted you couldn't just hold the saw on it's side (It would either flood or starve). I bought my Danarm Whipper from a farmer here in the U.K. a while back and was told that "It hasn't been running for about 30 years". after an inspection and clean I replaced the piston rings, head gasket and did a carb-rebuild. The saw now starts runs and even the chain oil pump works. I have it in my collection of old British chainsaws so it won't be run very often. But I like my saws to be in working order. You will find parts for the engine and carb are available as these were reasonably common here. Other parts however can be tricky to find if needed.
All the very best.
SB. Kent England. Comment left on 02 September 2017 at 19:04 by Sarah Bluck

engine parts crank shaft conrod and cylinder Comment left on 11 October 2020 at 16:24 by John lyons

need an engine for clubley armstrong danarm whipit
w356173 price please Comment left on 17 October 2020 at 12:31 by John lyons

Hello, Like your post re Danarm Whippet. I have just found and purchased a Danarm Fury, pretty rough and has been stored for years but not in the best of locations. Please can you give me any advice re obtaing engine parts for this model. Saw looks complete but is seized! Where would I obtain a manual for this ? I live Weymouth UK!
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Tim Comment left on 17 March 2022 at 18:58 by Timothy Claridge

Sorry but I have to put the record straight . Danarm as was last known started back just before the second world war . Just before that war the plans of a petrol chain saw was smuggled out of Germany and the plans were bought by Cubley Armstrong a London designer who then approached the Stroud based engineering company Daniels engineering and the Danarm Chain saw was born. As most people will know how the name is made up if not then they took the DAN of Daniels and the ARM of Armstrong and there you have it Danarm (this information was first printed in the CITZEN a Gloucester even paper around 40 years ago. It appeared that an ex Danarm Employee had wrote about his time with Danarms). The first Danarm chain saw was the Junior which had a Villiers 2 stroke engine which to fell trees you had to rotate the gear box as it was not until the 1950's that Tillotson invented the all position Carburettor and the modern chain saw was born. Once this happened the saw could be made lighter and lighter until what We know today. I could go on and on but I won't only just to say that when Danarm made the DD8f, the Villiers 8f was only made for Danarm for the DD8f. I live around 10 miles from where the Danarm saws were put together and not long before they moved the company to Dudley in the West Midlands. I was lucky enough to visit the old factory site, not much too look at a small building on an industrial estate in Brmscombe near Stroud. But to finish I have around 40 Modern Danarms and still have a soft spot for them, but I don't know why, it may be they were built in Town where I was born some 62 years ago . Comment left on 02 October 2025 at 23:45 by David Ford

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