Atlas Steel and Iron Wire Rope Works

of Reddish, Stockport

c.1880 Frederick Whittaker Scott, who had been at Scott Brothers (of Manchester), formed these works in Reddish.

1887 Manchester Exhibition: 'Mr. W. Scott, of the Atlas Patent Steel Wire Rope Works, Reddish-road, Stockport, shows samples of steel wire of various sizes and qualities, and the same material in the manufactured form of large and small wire ropes for mining and other purposes ; samples of the following ropes amongst many others are shown. A flat steel wire rope 1040 yards long and 4 1/2 in. wide by 11/16in. thick, weighing 7 1/2 tons, supplied to the Ashton Moss Colliery. A flat rope for the Dukinfield Coal and Cannel Company, 830 yards long, 4 in. wide, 7/8in. thick, weighing 5 1/2 tons. A 6 in. round rope 885 yards long, weighing nearly 7 tons, supplied to the Harris Navigation Company, South Wales. A large showcase at the back of the stand contains specimens of ploughing ropes, steel hawsers, and crab ropes of a remarkably flexible nature. All the strands of the round ropes contain nineteen wires, and are made upon an improved principle adopted by this firm which has hitherto given very satisfactory results. All the wire used by this firm is made by them at their own works, for the special purpose of making high-class ropes.'

1889 From The Engineer, 17 May (Fig 3 not included here): 'Mr. F. W. Scott, of the Atlas Rope Works, Reddish, has recently devised a simple form of "locked" wire roping, and according to this invention two wires of the outer series of the strands or rope are held together by thin strips of metal - preferably steel - turned up at their outer edges, so as to partially embrace the wires and hold them in position. This construction is represented at Fig. 3, in which a indicates two or a pair of wires of an external series, held together by the metallic band b, turned up at its edges, as shown. The sets of wires thus secured are then twisted into strands or the outer coverings of roping, and in this manner the external wires are locked or held in their proper relative positions, so that should any become broken, they cannot spring out of their normal lays or direction'.

c.1925 Acquired by British Ropes

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