The return of peace brought an increased demand for mobile cranes and the factory was again enlarged to meet this need. Since 1945 the Company had continuously renewed, modernised and extended their plant purchasing adjoining ground to make this possible. By the 1960 the Grantham works occupied 10 acres of ground of which 115,000 square feet are covered factory space, and employed a staff of over 300 works people.

This plant, with its design department. modern machine shops, steel fabrication shops and spacious assembly bays, is in sharp contrast to the original small workshops of the '20s, employing barely two dozen Workers.

Crane design kept pace with advanced production., Self propelled crawler and truck-mounted cranes with lifting capacities ranging up to 25 tons were produced in the Grantham factory. These found a ready application in industries all over the world and in countries as far apart as. China South America, New Zealand and Finland ,on tasks varying from shipbuilding to, airport work.

In addition to the more orthodox crane, range, many special purpose cranes were designed and built. One interesting example of this is a Palm Nut Collecting Crane for operating on a tropical plantations, Instead of the traditional scramble up the tree to shake the nuts free the collector moved among the tree tops perched on the end, of a crane jib. (an early example of what is now known as the cherry picker or sky lift.

R. H. Neal always maintained a keen interest in the mechanical, handling problems peculiar to Public Works Contractors and Civil Engineers and built much equipment to cater for their needs. They produced a tractor mounted hydraulic grab, known as' the Pelican Loader, which was particularly suited for the fast handling of coal and other bulk, materials. Their smallest crane fitted with a 40 foot telescopic mast GM mobile also primarily, intended for builders and contractors though this has found a multitude of uses in other industries.

Another Neal. product which is rapidly gained favour was the Lorry Loader (get derails); a small hydraulically operated crane which can be mounted on purely standard lorries close behind the driver's cab. For travelling purposes and when not in use the jib folds neatly sway without interfering with load space. (With a great lat of foresight Coles sold the patent of this)