Tinsley Wire Industries: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
1968 Acquired light engineers [[S. Blanckensee and Son]] of Cannock<ref> The Times, May 03, 1968</ref> | 1968 Acquired light engineers [[S. Blanckensee and Son]] of Cannock<ref> The Times, May 03, 1968</ref> | ||
1973 Twenty per cent owned by [[British Steel]] | 1973 Twenty per cent owned by [[British Steel]] |
Revision as of 10:29, 13 May 2016


of Sheffield
1962 New factory constructed at Shepcote Lane, Sheffield[1]
1964 Boulton and Paul sold their wire and wire products interests to Tinsley Wire[2]
1968 Acquired light engineers S. Blanckensee and Son of Cannock[3]
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[4]
1994 was Britain's largest wire manufacturer and Sheffield's largest private employer[5]