Tinsley Wire Industries
of Sheffield (1938).
of Bushbury, Wolverhampton (1949)
Early 1930s: as a way of avoiding British import tariffs Belgian wiremaker, Trefileries Leon Bekaert, set up a UK factory in association with Templeborough Rolling Mills Ltd, a Sheffield supplier of wire rods.[1]
1933 It joined with British Ropes Ltd and the United Steel Companies Ltd in forming Tinsley Wire Industries Ltd with a factory at Tinsley on Sheffield Road.
1962 New factory constructed at Shepcote Lane, Sheffield[2]
1964 Boulton and Paul sold their wire and wire products interests to Tinsley Wire[3]
1968 Both British Ropes and United Steel had interests in Tinsley Wire. Acquired light engineers S. Blanckensee and Son of Cannock[4].
1973 Twenty per cent owned by British Steel
1973 British Steel sold its carbon- and mild-steel wire-making activities at Warrington (Rylands and Whitecross) and at Middlesbrough (Dorman Long) into a new company Rylands-Whitecross, jointly owned by Tinsley Wire Industries and British Ropes[5]
1989 British Steel and Belgian steel cord company Bekaert acquired Bridon's 40 percent holding in the company; Bridon acquired Fox Wire, Johnson and Nephew and Lionweld Kennedy from Tinsley[6]
1994 was Britain's largest wire manufacturer and Sheffield's largest private employer[7]