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Smethwick Drop Forgings

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November 1950.
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November 1957. SDF.
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of Rolfe Street, Smethwick, West Midlands. Telephone: Smethwick 1234/5. Telegraphic Address: "Droforg, 'Phone, Birmingham".

1904 Business established, presumably becoming part of A. Harper and Sons

1933 Acquired by Hadfields

1936 Public company formed to acquire the drop forgings business of Beans Industries[1]

1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Drop Forgings for the Automobile, Electrical, Textile and Agricultural Machinery and General Engineering Trades. (Stand No. D.518).[2]

1937 Manufacturers of drop forgings.[3]

1961 Manufacturers of drop forgings for automobile, railway, electrical, armament and other industries, in a range of material comprising steel, alloys and non-ferrous metals. 1,000 employees.[4]

1963 Company bought by GKN.

1986 United Engineering Steels was formed as a JV to take over British Steel's Special Steels Division and GKN's special steels and forging operations[5]

1986 SMETHWICK DROP FORGINGS P.O. Box 19, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. A member of United Engineering and Forging[6]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times, Apr 29, 1936
  2. ↑ * 1937 British Industries Fair p415
  3. ↑ * 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  4. ↑ * 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  5. ↑ The Times Jan. 15, 1986
  6. ↑ Dudley & District Chronicle 25 April 1986
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