Hamilton's Windsor Iron Works

of Garston, Liverpool

See also Hamilton's Windsor Ironworks Co.

1886 Prospectus for the Mitis Co Ltd: 'The Company has acquired the valuable patents for the United Kingdom for producing castings of wrought-iron or steel by the process known as the Mitis, patented by Mr. Thorsten Nordenfelt, and already successfully practised in the United States and Sweden, where the Mitis Works are being extended, to meet increasing demand. The Company has also acquired the extensive works known as Hamilton's Windsor Iron Works, situated at Garston, on the river Mersey, within six miles of Liverpool, comprising an area of about 10 acres, and are of freehold tenure, with a river frontage of 500 ft. and wet dock, with all the buildings, machinery, plant, and tools thereon. These works, dock, plant, and tools, have recently been valued by Messrs. Picton & Co., of Liverpool, as a going concern, including a further proposed outlay of £l0,000 at £144,692. They are peculiarly well adapted for the extensive development of the Mitis process and the general purposes of the Company, and for submarine and other boat-building, one of the Nordenfelt submarine boats ordered by a Foreign Government being now under construction at the works. In addition to the direct water communication (by which most of the material, raw and manufactured, will be conveyed), a siding from the London and North-Western Railway runs into the works, and thereby affords communication with the Midland, Great Northern, and other railways. The Directors do not at present propose to compete with the existing market in the construction of heavy castings, but will at first confine themselves to the extensive and more profitable trade of casting small articles from wrought-iron, which at present can only be produced by forging. The castings which are now being made by this process show a large margin for profit, and are so tough and sharp in outline that they must to a great extent replace forgings of a similar nature. When brought into the wider field in competition with the numberless articles of daily requirement which cannot be produced by forging alone, but require milling, slotting, and other tool work, the saving becomes still greater, Mitis castings having been produced at considerably less than half the cost of forging. Large contracts with the Indian Government have been for several years executed at the works, and it is intended to continue and extend the general engineering business in addition to the Mitis manufacture. The process has been examined and reported upon by Mr. E. A Cowper, past president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. ......'

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