Bromford Tube Co
of Rocky Lane, Aston, Birmingham - Sales Office. Telephone: Office - Aston Cross 3030; Works - East 1311. Telegraphic Address: "Tubrom, Birmingham". (1937)
c.1920 Bromford were suppliers of hollow blooms to Tubes and Accles and Pollock as well as hot drawn weldless tubes[1].
1921 Tubes Ltd floated Bromford Tube Co as a separate company; Tube Investments subscribed for a large part of the shares [2]
1921 Bromford Tube Co was one member of Tube Investments[3]
1927 Advert for steel tubes [4]
1928 Patent - Flanged tubes.
1930 Patent - Pipe joints.
1930 Two large tube makers Stewarts and Lloyds and Tube Investments entered into an agreement to reduce duplication [5]. Although this was to “facilitate exchange of information and technology” it resulted in Stewarts and Lloyds gaining a half interest in the Bromford Tube Co of Erdington, Birmingham and then acquiring the other half in 1945; and in Howell and Co Sheffield, this being given up in 1938.
1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Hot Finished Weldless Steel Tubes, ¾in. to 15in. bore, for all purposes. Lighting Standards. Transmission Poles. Loose Flange and Carlton Joint Tubing. Bromford Pit Props. Export Sales - see British Tube Sills (Export) Ltd. (Stand Nos. D.709 and D.608) [6]