Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,394 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Twisteel Reinforcement

From Graces Guide
July 1949.
August 1949.

Twisteel Reinforcement Ltd. of 43 Upper Grosvenor Street, W.1; of Alma Street, Smethwick, Staffs; of 7 Oxford Road, Manchester.

1937 Factory built on the Government Trading Estate at Treforest, Glamorgan, taking all of its steel from the British (Guest Keen Baldwins) Iron and Steel Co's plant at Cardiff[1]

1940 A majority share was acquired by GKN[2]

1957 Renamed as GKN Reinforcements Ltd[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Feb 22, 1937
  2. The Times, Jun 26, 1940
  3. The Times , May 28, 1957