8 hours ago, Mikkel said:

RENAMO, I think that's the most unexpected source of model railway info I've yet come across 

 

Fascinating stuff, thanks for posting it.

That’s what I thought when I first saw it. They destroyed the mill in a battle for a nearby airstrip I think, displacing a large number of East Germans, who had replaced the Portuguese in running the mill (the company was just barely still under British ownership) How they got there we’ll probably never know . . .

Another UK supplier into the cane sugar industry was Fletcher & Stewart of Derby. They supplied processing equipment, I don't know what archives exist of this company. Not sure who supplied the conveyor equipment to get the cane from rail to mill. may have been Renold Chain of Manchester. or Ewart Chainbelt of Derby. I have some post-1960 Ewart catalogues, but they don't list their  sugar cane conveyor equipment.  

5 hours ago, DonB said:

Another UK supplier into the cane sugar industry was Fletcher & Stewart of Derby. They supplied processing equipment, I don't know what archives exist of this company. Not sure who supplied the conveyor equipment to get the cane from rail to mill. may have been Renold Chain of Manchester. or Ewart Chainbelt of Derby. I have some post-1960 Ewart catalogues, but they don't list their  sugar cane conveyor equipment.  

Thank you sir, I will look into that, it might also have been made by the Gregg Car Company of New York, who appear to have made the unloading apparatus.

11 hours ago, Lantavian said:

 

Glasgow University has some archives from the company. Only about a foot of shelf space but that includes a history of the company.

 

https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/dd4b66e0-3fac-375d-87ec-a8e7907231ec

Thanks for that, its definitely better than some archive sights I’ve been on. I tried to get the Sena company archives out, but the West Sussex Record Office wasn’t going to give up their secrets easily.