S&P Blair & Son

S. & P. Blair & Son (originally P. C. Blair) was founded in 1933 by Peter Blair on returning from Africa where he had been a gold prospector. He was a blacksmith, farrier and ornamental ironworker manufacturing gates and railings as well as working to the local farming community, carrying out machinery repairs etc.

Our trawl hanging blocks are available with a choice of mild steel, hardened steel, or stainless steel sheave running on either bronze bushes or ball/roller bearings. Nylon sheaves are also available. The steel cages are galvanized and painted. The table below lists our standard range of trawl hanging block sizes, their safe working load (SWL) in tonnes and the maximum recommended wire rope diameter for each size of block/sheave.

Through our relationship with Rapp Ecosse we manufacture a wide range of hydraulic net drums from 1 Tonne - 30 Tonne core pull or more. They are normally deck mounted on stands but can also be gantry mounted. All of our net drums are shot-blasted and fully galvanized, then epoxy primed and finally painted with a high quality enamel paint.

Through our relationship with Rapp Ecosse, we have been manufacturing trawl winches for approximately 40 years, with an emphasis on producing winches of the highest quality, at competitive prices. Our winches are driven by a range of radial piston hydraulic motors providing power either, directly to the high tensile steel main winch shaft, or indirectly through one of our custom designed steel spur gear drive gearboxes.