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 167,649 pages of information and 247,065 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.

E. Parkes and Co

From Graces Guide

of Atlas Ironworks, West Bromwich.

1862 Company established.

1911 Incorporated as a limited company.

1914 Manufacturers of iron and steel bars and sheets. Specialities: bar iron and sheet iron of all kinds, sheets for galvanizing, corrugating, roofing, gasholder and merchant purposes, merchant bars. [1]

1956 As part of the sale by the Holding and Realisation Agency of the Briton Ferry Steel Co, The Briton Ferry Steel and Tinplate Agency Limited, London Works (Barlows) Limited, The Neath Steel Sheet and Galvanizing Company Limited, and E. Parkes & Co. Limited ceased to be owned by the state[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  2. London Gazette 4 May 1956