Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,645 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

BSC Special Steels Division

From Graces Guide

of Osier Bed Works, Lower Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton.(1977)

1972 British Steel made an agreement with private sector Thomas Firth and John Brown to rationalise stainless steel operations by taking over the rolling of strip and plate; Thomas Firth and John Brown would retain the Firth-Vickers company[1].

1985 British Steel's Tinsley Park special steels complex included the Tinsley Park works, the Stocksbridge Works and Aldwarke Works[2]

1987 Put into a JV with GKN, United Engineering Steels

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, 3 May 1972
  2. The Times Mar. 29, 1985