Cox and Danks
Iron and Steel Merchants/ Metal dealers of 168 Regent Street, W.1.
Manchester - Arcade Chambers, St Mary's Gate / Midlands - Richard Green Ltd of Cradley Heath, Staffs.
1921 Ernest Frank Cox, trading as Cox and Danks, gained a licence under the Non-Ferrous Metal Industry Act.[1]
1922 E. F. G. Cox set up a ship-breaking yard at Queenborough, Kent, and subsequently purchased from the Government a 40,000-ton floating dock which had been handed over by Germany as reparations. He was subsequently engaged to raise the scuttled German battle fleet in Scapa Flow.
1924 Article about the salvage of the German fleet at Scapa Flow[2]
1925 Address changed from 39, and 40, Arcade Chambers St. Mary's Gate, Manchester, to Parsonage Chambers, 3 The Parsonage, Manchester.[3]
1933 Metal Industries acquired the salvage undertaking of the company at Scapa Flow
1949 Metal Industries acquired the company. Had operations throughout Britain; dealer in ferrous and non-ferrous metals; collector and disposer of metals; also dealt in new and reused steel, and in reused plant and machinery[4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:18 March 1921 Issue:32262 Page:2224
- ↑ Engineering 1924/08/15
- ↑ The Engineer 1925/03/27
- ↑ The Times, Sep 04, 1952