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 167,859 pages of information and 247,161 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.

British Griffin Chilled Iron and Steel Co

From Graces Guide
Exhibit at Ida Bay Railway.
1921. 'Komos' chilled castings.

of 139 Cannon Street, London

of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancs (1914)

1899 The company was registered on 5 October. [1]

1900 Had a capital of £75,000 fully subscribed, to commence the manufacture of chilled wheels and castings at Barrow, on Griffin's patents.[2]

1914 Manufacturers of railway and tramway wheels, chilled rolls and castings. Specialities: railway and tramway wheels, chilled rolls and castings of every description for crushing, grinding and cement machinery, patent chilled hammer heads, dies etc., brake blocks, steel-tyred wheels with special toughened and annealed semi-steel centres. [3]

1923 In the process of liquidation.[4]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  2. The Engineer 1900/01/12 p 52.
  3. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  4. The Engineer 1923/06/01