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'''Whitecross Company''' of Milner Street, Warrington. | '''Whitecross Company''' of Milner Street, Warrington. | ||
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Whitecross Company of Milner Street, Warrington.
1864 Incorporated as a limited company.
1872 Whitecross Wire Company (see January 1872 advert)
1885 Name changed to Whitecross Company.
1914 Wire manufacturers and galvanizers. Specialities: iron and steel rolled and drawn wires, patent steel wires, barb wire, wire ropes, wire nails, wire netting. Employees 1,500. [1]
1920 Wire rod rolling mill. [2]
1932 Lancashire Steel Corporation acquired Whitecross Co of Warrington[3].
1935 See Whitecross Co:1935 Review
1937 Supplier of Tru-Lay Ropes[4]
1960 Steel wire ropes. [5]
1967 Nationalisation of Lancashire Steel which became part of 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[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer of 10th September 1920 p251
- ↑ The Times, 20 December 1932
- ↑ The Times, Jul 15, 1937
- ↑ Mining Year Book 1960. Published by Walter E. Skinner. Advert p
- ↑ The Times, Aug 17, 1973