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 167,647 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Whitehead Thomas Bar and Strip Co

From Graces Guide

Whitehead, Thomas Bar and Strip Company, Redbourn Works, Scunthorpe

1933 Richard Thomas and Co made an agreement with Whitehead Iron and Steel Co to supply billets from Redbourn works at Scunthorpe to that company's Newport rolling mills; Mr L D Whitehead to join the Richard Thomas and Co board[1].

1933 Jointly-owned company formed by Whitehead Iron and Steel Co and Richard Thomas and Co[2] to operate a finishing mill at Redbourn, which was equipped by transferring the semi-continous mill from Whitehead's Tredegar works[3]

1951 Nationalised under the Iron and Steel Act; became part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain[4]

See Also

Sources of Information

  1. The Times, 30 March 1933
  2. The Times, 22 May 1935
  3. The Times, 4 October 1933
  4. Hansard 19 February 1951