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Foster Brothers

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Display board at Black Country Living Museum
May 1896.
December 1906.
1912.
1927.
1961.

of Lea Brook Tube Works, Wednesbury

1888 Company established.

1893 Incorporated as a limited company. The business which had been carried on by Humphrey Foster as Ratcliff and Foster was converted into a private limited company as Foster Brothers[1]

1911 Manufacturer of Tubes for the Railways.[2]

1914 Tube makers and engineers. Specialities: tubes and fittings, high-pressure steam pipe-work. [3]

1934 Iissued bankruptcy notice against Clifford Llewellyn Brown[4]

1961 Associated with Foster Brothers (London) and Foster Brothers Plastics

Presumably later Fosters Power Piping of Wednesbury

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times Jun 02, 1893
  2. ↑ Bradshaw’s Railway Manual 1911
  3. ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  4. ↑ The London Gazette 24 August 1934
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