Steel and Co
Steel and Co of Paley Street, Sunderland
1879 Business founded by Lancelot Steel
1914 Directory: Listed as Iron Founders
1923 Converted into a private limited company: Steel and Co Ltd
Renamed Steel and Co (Holdings) Ltd, engineers, ironfounders, metal workers and builders merchants. Manufactured castings for the shipbuilding and allied engineering industries, and supplied road contracting and public works engineers.
The business concentrated on its outside engineering work - heating, ventilation, air conditioning and domestic engineering.
By 1937 Directors included brothers John Eric Steel and James Steel
1937 Steel and Co was incorporated as a public company [1] to acquire the undertakings of 3 companies, one of which was Steel and Co (Holdings) Ltd, engineers, ironfounders, metal workers and builders merchants of Sunderland[2].
1952 Owns Archibald Low and Sons.[3]
1963 Sold its 2 builders merchant subsidiaries, Gunton and Havers and Steels of Sunderland, to Thomas Tilling; Steels would become a subsidiary of Thomas Graham and Sons[4]