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Swift Levick and Sons

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Steel Manufacturers, of Clarence Steel Works, Sheffield.

1883 Established by Thomas Swift Levick to manufacture high grade special steels

1912 Started to make metal permanent magnets

1922 Manufactured crucible cast steels for engineers tools, high-speed steels, alloy steels made by electric furnace, forgings, permanent magnets, files, hammers, etc

1937 Steel and magnet manufacturers. "Foremost 467" Stainless Steel.[1]

1976 Acquired by Duport

1978 Closure of the specialist steel production - the last in Sheffield; production of permanent magnets and magnet assemblies would continue[2]

1982 Swift Levick Magnets became part of Magnetic Materials Group


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  2. ↑ The Engineer 1978
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