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Jessop-Saville

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Special Steels producer, of Sheffield.

1929 BSA merged its steelmaking subsidiaries William Jessop and Sons and J. J. Saville and Co to form Jessop-Saville.

1960s Like other parts of the Sheffield steel industry, the company was reorganized into separate companies: foundry, steels, engineering, etc.

1967 Edgar Allen and Co purchased Jessop's foundry interests[1], relocating Jessop's special alloy (medium frequency) melting plant to Edgar's Sheffield Road site and the 3-ton electric furnace was moved to one end of the Tropenas Melting Shop.

1967 One of the larger steel makers not subject to nationalisation[2]

1969 Taken over by Firth Brown, the largest private sector steel company[3].

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times, Apr 22, 1967
  2. ↑ The Times, Apr 26, 1967
  3. ↑ The Times, Mar 20, 1969
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