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 167,645 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.

United Steel Structural Co

From Graces Guide
July 1961.

1951 One of the companies nationalised as part of the nationalisation of the iron and steel industry[1]

1954 One of the United Steel companies returned to private ownership[2]

1959 Replaced the steelwork contractors on the Barton High Level bridge across the Manchester Ship Canal; 2 men were killed and 8 injured when steel girders collapsed soon after work resumed[3]

1961 One of the members of the United Steel Companies group, which also included:


See Also

Sources of Information

  1. The Edinburgh Gazette 23 February 1951
  2. The Edinburgh Gazette 26 March 1954
  3. The Times, Dec 31, 1959