Star Tube Co
of Birmingham
1862 Richard Hobbs Taunton bought the Star Tube Works. In addition to tube manufacture, general engineering work was carried out and, particularly, high-pressure cylinders for the Government balloon department.[1]
1889 Owing to the growing demand for seamless cold-drawn tubes, arising from the development of cycle-building, the firm was converted into a limited company, as Taunton, Delmard and Lane, but the enterprise was unsuccessful.
1893 Taunton, Delmard, Lane and Co was in liquidation
1896/7 Directory: Advertiser. More detail [2]
1896 The company purchased and resold at profit the assets of the Credenda Tube Co[3]
1897 Presumably became part of the new company, Tubes Ltd, bringing together the seamless steel tube activities of a number of companies
1919 Tube Investments was registered as a public company, combining the seamless steel tube manufacturing companies of Tubes Limited, Credenda Conduits Co, Simplex ConduitsLtd, Star Tube Co and St. Helen's Tube and Metal[4][5].
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