Walker Lincoln Ltd. Blog - All Things Surface Tables, Floorplates, T-slot, Angle Plates

Walker Lincoln have supplied many "platefields" over the years, to racing teams and automotive manufacturers alike. Pictured below is an installation of 6 off 3mx 2m x 200mm t-slot plates, with 24mm t-slots at 200mm centres, at an automotive R&D facility in Newton Aycliffe, UK. Smaller installations in confined spaces can be tackled using smaller plates connected together, such as the 3m x 1m x 200mm plate below, which is exactly the same pattern as those pictured above. Call

Starting in 1997, Walker Lincoln Ltd began buying and selling surface tables from a disused foundry on Beevor St. in Lincoln. Since then, the company has sold hundreds of these essential tools to all sectors of British engineering. A popular size is the classic Crown Windley 8' x 4' (approx 2400mm x 1200mm) surface table. Let us know what your surface table, t-slot/plain floorplate or angle plate requirements are and we'll try our best to find a solution. +44 1522 560088 Emai

Surface tables have been an integral part of engineering workshops for 200 years ever since Henry Maudslay, the father of British precision engineering, pioneered the surface plate around 1800. By manually scraping a cast-iron plate and working sets of three against each other with marking blue, he generated the first perfectly flat reference planes. A flat reference is the basic datum required for precision measurements such as height, squareness, parallelism and roundnes