Leigh and Sillavan:1935 Review
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Leigh and Sillavan Ltd.
This Company was established as a private firm in the year 1873 at their present address and converted into a limited company in 1917. They were at first almost exclusively a merchant firm, trading in the North of England and the Midlands, dealing in pig iron, manufactured iron and steel, and non-ferrous metals.
Their activities were in fact, chiefly among the general engineers and the textile machinery manufacturers, but since the War, and especially since the severe depression which so greatly affected the North in general and the cotton trade in particular, they have found it necessary to extend the sphere of their operations and now cover the whole of England with branch offices in London, Liverpool, Birmingham and resident representation in all the principal centres.
They are the sole selling agents for Newton, Chambers and Co, of Thorncliffe, near Sheffield, for the "Thorncliffe" brand of pig iron. They are agents in the North of England for the North Lonsdale Iron and Steel Co, of Ulverston, for the sale of Ulverston hematite and ingot moulds, and for The Linthorpe-Dinsdale Smelting Co of Middlesbrough in the same area for ferro-manganese and spiegel.
They are agents in the North Country and London Area for M. and W. Grazebrook of Dudley for "Grazebrook" cold blast iron and for Modern Foundries Limited for "Modifer" iron.
They have also a close working connection with William Baird and Co of Glasgow, being one of the chief distributors in England of the "Gartsherrie" and "Eglinton" brands of iron. They also work in close co-operation with Stewarts and Lloyds of Birmingham, this connection being chiefly identified with the sale of "Lloyds" brand of Northamptonshire pig iron.
Other activities include all classes and descriptions of manufactured iron and steel and a large business in all non-ferrous metals including ores, scrap and residues.
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