M. and W. Grazebrook
of Netherton Iron Works, Dudley.
1750 Company founded.
1818 Grazebrooke and Whitehouse, Netherton Iron Works.[1]
1819 Partnership change. '...the Partnership which subsisted between Michael Grazebrook, deceased, and Benjamin Whitehouse, as Iron and Coal-Masters, in the Netherton, Gornall, and Halesowen concerns, was determined by mutual consent on the 27th day of March 1819.— All debts then owing by or to those concerns, or any of them, are to be paid and received by the Executors of the said Michael Grazebrook.— Dated the 18th day of September 1828. Michl. Grazebrook, W. Grazebrook, Executors of Michael Grazebrook, deceased. Benjm. Whitehouse.[2]
1840 Michael Grazebrook and William Grazebrook of Netherton Iron Works.[3]
1865 Dissolution of the Partnership between William Grazebrook, Michael Phillips Grazebrook, and John Phillips Grazebrook, carrying on business as Iron and Coalmasters, at the Netherton Iron Works, Dudley, under the firm of M. and W. Grazebrook, by the retirement of the said William Grazebrook; the business would be carried on by Michael Phillips Grazebrook and John Phillips Grazebrook, under the same firm of Messrs. M. and W. Grazebrook[4]
1914 Private company.
1926 December: The blast-furnace of the company which had been idle since July owing to the coal strike, was restarted in the first week of December.[5]
1947 Brettell Lane Foundry Ltd, of Brierley Hill, was incorporated.
1950 Company made public.
1961 General heavy engineers and ironfounders. Manufacturers of all types of welded fabrications, oil and chemical plant, rail tank wagons, machining, homogenous lead lined vessels and iron castings. 250 employees. [6]
1961 Acquired by N. Hingley and Sons[7].
1964 The general engineering and marine deck equipment activities of R. C. Gibbins and Co and Welin-Maclachlan Davits were transferred by owners N Hingley to the Grazebrook Group[8]
1966 Acquired by F. H. Lloyd and Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Staffordshire Advertiser - Saturday 20 June 1818
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:23 September 1828 Issue:18507 Page:1753
- ↑ Perry's Bankrupt Gazette - Saturday 16 May 1840
- ↑ London Gazette 1 Dec 1865
- ↑ The Engineer 1926/12/03
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Aug 28, 1961
- ↑ The Times Oct 01, 1964