They decided to move north and found a premises in Grantham so in 1937 they opened a factory in Dysart Road to increase their production. At the time when Neal's took over the Grantham Works, it was owned by a pump manufacturer, although it had earlier been the site iron foundry.

To begin with, the cranes shared the facilities at Grantham with Neal's other equipment. However, during the 1940s, the company benefited, as did others in the field of crane manufacture, from the absence of Coles from the commercial scene (Coles were at this time working exclusively on government contracts). Cranes became Neal's sole product during this decade. The factory expanded considerably as new assembly and fabrication shops were built to increase production.

The manufacturing range was extended to include self propelled, crawler mounted and truck mounted cranes (the Q range ) and there were corresponding developments in their range of Contractors plant. A small half circle slew crawler excavator was designed which was capable of being converted into a continuous bucket trench digger. Similar dual purpose applications. were incorporated in, their Contractors pumps, builders hoists and a special type of enclosed reversing drum concrete mixer.

Under the astute guidance of the founders sons the company continued expand and. by the advent of the Second World War, its products were being marketed, throughout the British Isles.

During the War the entire output was absorbed by the government and production was considerably increased to meet these increasing demands.

Neal cranes were active in every war theatre and quickly earned a reputation for versatility and reliability. Based on the 'Q' range machines were self propelled or as below bolted onto heavy duty chassis of other manufacturers like this Thornicroft (below) built for the RAF in 1940.

Neals 'QM' 5T Mounted on Thorncroft Chassis