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 167,394 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.

Brasway

From Graces Guide

Metals merchant, hydraulic joints maker and industrial lubricant supplier, of Wednesbury

1969 Floated on the stock exchange, a ferrous scrap metal dealer; its wholly-owned subsidiary Daniel dealt in non-ferrous metals. Said to be coming to market "too early because of capital needed for expansion"[1]

1974 Continued rapid growth, the company was now profitable; major expansion had come from steek stockholding, especially with foriegn steel[2]

1981 Acquired Woden Steel and Fasteners at Wednesbury from F. H. Tomkins[3].

1993 Sold its steel tubing business to Senior Engineering[4].


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Jul 03, 1969
  2. The Times, Aug 05, 1974
  3. The Times, 13 January 1981
  4. The Independent, 17 April 1993