LINER 'PORTASAW' SPARE PARTS ARRANGEMENT DRAWING

Date Added: 23 May 2022 Contributor: Bill Rayner Year of Photo: 1950 Picture No: 5370

Liner Concrete Machinery Company Ltd. of Park Road, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, NE8 3HR. The company was started in the 1920s by a blacksmith and ironsmith workshop owner a Mr Liner who ran a busy yet small metalworking and welding business producing agricultural implements and construction equipment that grew successfully. The Postwar years were crucial for Mr Liner who decided to sell off the site and moved elsewhere to former abandoned warehouses at Gateshead to restart his business and resume work in 1955 to meet the local demand. Within a week his staff invented a four wheel cement mixer made in a similar way to a large MECCANO model he bought from a local scrapyard using srap metal parts and ironwheels for himself to use when he wanted to build a new large long wall along their yard at their factory at that time. Sales of this new patented cement mixer were high and this kickstarted the new firm of LINER CONCRETE MACHINERY COMPANY Limited. The company manufactured a wide range of site equipment such as concrete mixers, site dumpers, sawbenches, roller pan (Rollpanit) mortar mixers, Pan mixers for batching plants.
N.B. After comment from Laurie Hatchard, please refer to view his comments and amendments to the published information: https://tractors.fandom.com/wiki/Liner_Concrete_Machinery_Company

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6 Comments

The history of Liner outlined above and particularly in the full version of it is littered with misleading and in many cases untrue statements.
Laurie Hatchard. Ex Sales Manager North West of England for Liner Concrete Machinery. Comment left on 30 December 2022 at 20:20 by Laurie Hatchard

Dear Laurie,

Thank you for your comment.

I am sorry to read "The history of Liner outlined above and particularly in the full version of it is littered with misleading and in many cases untrue statements."

That being the case, would you be prepared to correct the record for us?

Thank you for your time and good health for 2023.

Sincerely, Bill Rayner Comment left on 31 December 2022 at 00:07 by Bill Rayner

Hi Bill,
Thanks for your reply. Perhaps I should make it a bit clearer or rephrase it that I was referring more to the full version in Tractor and Construction Plant Wiki from which I assume you have taken your paragraph (See https://tractors.fandom.com/wiki/Liner_Concrete_Machinery_Company)
and where I have commented on a number of misleading statements. Apologies if it came over as just aimed at your page.
Regarding the Portasaw, it was a very good general purpose saw mainly sold into construction. We competed with Rob Roy and Gabro Saws, but if you wanted the best you paid a bit more for the Liner. People like Tarmac and McAlpines bought many of them. Liner also invented the first proper Telescopic Handler "The Liner Giraffe" which we launched at the Public Works Exibition at Olympia in Nov 1974 and which JCB followed two years later with their version "The JCB 520" Now everybody has a Telehandler !
Best wishes for 2023. Comment left on 31 December 2022 at 11:55 by Laurie Hatchard

Aye Laurie,
Thank you for your clarification and further comment on the Portasaw and the Liner company's products.
I understand that reading "factual" notes that you know to be incorrect is vexatious. I will annotate my original note to re-direct readers to the original website, with your comments.
All the best for 2023, Bill Rayner Comment left on 02 January 2023 at 12:21 by Bill Rayner

I was MD from 1960 till the company was taken over!
Please ask me for any info. Comment left on 29 September 2024 at 13:38 by Ken Harrison

Dear Sir,
I enjoyed reading your comments about "LINER".
From 1961to 1977, I was Managing Director. I actually held the Royal warrant from her Majesty the Queen on behalf of the company. The company was founded by my father Norman Harrison in 1917, in Glasshouse street in Newcastle.
The name LINER came from the liners we had in our concrete block machines...The company ceased manufacturing in 1981. It is amazing that so many of our machines are in use ..today.

I am 95 in October and still have happy memories of the Company and our wonderful employees.
Many thanks,

Ken Harrison. Comment left on 06 August 2025 at 19:41 by Kenneth J HRrison

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