PRIESTMAN LION Seilbagger

 PRIESTMAN LION Seilbagger 

Priestman Brothers was an engineering company based in Kingston upon Hull, England

 that manufactored diggers, dredgers, cranes and other industrial machinery. 

In the later 1900s the company also produced the Priestman Oil engine, an early 

design of oil fuelled internal combustion engine.In 1928 production of excavators named

 after animals began; models named"Lion", "Tiger" and "Panther" were produced. 

The company merged with Coles Cranes of Sunderland 1970.

The Priestman Grab & VC Excavators Divisions were sold to RB International.

(Wikipedia)