Baldwins
From Graces Guide
of Wind Street, Swansea. Works: King's Dock, Swansea; Mansel, Port Talbot; Wern, Briton Ferry
- 1902 The company was established and registered on 7 April, to acquire the businesses of iron and steel manufacturers, and colliery and iron proprietors, of E. P. and W. Baldwin, Wright, Butler and Co, Alfred Baldwin and Co, the Bryn Navigation Colliery Co and the Blackwall Galvanised Iron Co. [1]
- 1914 Iron masters and colliery proprietors. Specialities: round, square and hoop iron; bar, angle and tee steel; black and galvanized sheets, tinned sheets, tinplates etc. The company has its own blast furnaces and steel works and numerous factories where steel bars are converted into a variety of metal sheets. Employees 6,000. The following brands are important features of the company's output:
- In galvanized sheets: "Phoenix" corrugated, plain and best sheets for seaming and working-up; "Lion and Crown" best dead flat galvanized sheets.
- In black sheets: "Vale", "Shield" and "Lion and Crown" dead flat and suitable for trunks, pipes etc., "Plough", a cheaper brand for ordinary use.
- In tinned sheets: "Baldwin-Wilden", "Cookley K" and "Lion and "Crown" made in best coke finish and heavily-coated charcoal finish for dairy work, gas meters etc.
- In tinplates: "Cookley K", "Cookley CSS" or "Wilden", "Wolverley", "Unicorn", "Cookley Coke" and "Stour"; and for Welsh tinplates "Kemys", "Kama", "Keblah", "Kaolin", "Karoo", "King's Dock, Swansea" and "Galles". [2]
- 1918 New private steel company formed by Baldwins, their bankers and associates; it was called the British Steel Corporation; it had acquired the Briton Ferry Works and extensive land between the Swansea docks and the Neath River to host blast furnaces and coke ovens[3].
- 1919 the British Steel Corporation was acquired by Baldwins[4].
- 1927 See Aberconway Chapter 17 for information on the company and its history.
- 1930 Amalgamation of South Wales Steel works with those of GKN to form British Iron and Steel Co.
- 1934 See Baldwins: 1934 Review
- 1937 British Industries Fair Advert for Welsh Tinplate Works. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. D.328). [5]
- 1937 Steel sheet manufacturers. [6]
See Also
- 1908 Stock Exchange Year-Book: Iron, Coal and Steel: B
- 1914 Whitakers Red Book: C
- 1914 Whitakers Red Book: G
- 1914 Whitakers Red Book: I
- 1914 Whitakers Red Book: S
- 1914 Whitakers Red Book: T
- 1914 Who's Who in Business: Company B
- 1922 Colliery Undertakings
- 1922 Who's Who In Engineering: Company B
- 1930 Industrial Britain: Baldwins
- 1937 British Industries Fair
- 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- 1938 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Visits to Works
- 1938 Ironmonger Diary and Hardware Buyers Guide: Companies B
- 1938 Ironmonger Diary and Hardware Buyers Guide: Proprietary Names
- 1938 Welsh Tinplate Works
- 1939 Suppliers to the Aircraft Industry
- Alan Sydney Whitehorn Dore
- Alfred Baldwin
- Alfred Baldwin and Co
- Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co
- Baldwins: 1934 Review
- Baldwins (Midland Branch)
- Blackwall Galvanised Iron Co
- British (Guest Keen, Baldwins) Iron and Steel Co
- British Mannesmann Tube Co
- British Steel Corporation
- Briton Ferry Iron Works
- Briton Ferry Steel Co
- Brymbo Steel Co
- Brymbo Steelworks
- Bryn Navigation Colliery Co
- Charles Hubert Lane
- Cribbwr Fawr Collieries
- Dowlais Ironworks
- E. P. and W. Baldwin
- Eaglesbush Tinplate Works
- Ebbw Vale Steelworks
- Elba Steel Works
- Elba Tin Plate Co
- Engineering 1905 Jan-Jun: Index: Directory of Advertisers
- Engineering 1907 Jul-Dec: Index: Addresses of Advertisers
- Engineering 1914 Jan-Jun: Index: Addresses of Advertisers
- Fairwood Tinplate Co
- Felinfoel Brewery
- Ferdinand Richards
- Francis Eric Chivers
- GKN
- GKN: 1934 Review
- Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co
- Hatton, Sons and Co
- Isaac Butler (1837-1917)
- John Cecil Davies
- John Lysaght
- John Roper Wright
- Margam Steel Works
- Metal Box Co
- National Shell Factories
- Oxfordshire Ironstone Co
- Panteg Steel Works
- Port Talbot Steel Co
- Richard Thomas and Baldwins
- Richard Thomas and Co
- Robert B. Byass and Co
- Stephen Thompson and Co
- Swansea Hematite Iron Co
- The Basic Industries of Great Britain by Aberconway: Chapter IXX
- The Basic Industries of Great Britain by Aberconway: Chapter XVII
- The Basic Industries of Great Britain by Aberconway: Chapter XX
- The Engineer 1873/05/02
- The Engineer 1903/11/13
- The Engineer 1919/01/03
- The Engineer 1922/06/16
- The Engineer 1922/09/29
- The Engineer 1925/06/19
- Thomas Jones (1853-1922)
- Wilden Ironworks
- William Charles Wright
- Wright, Butler and Co
- Wrought Iron Brands
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Times, 30 October 1918
- ↑ The Times, 21 January 1919
- ↑ 1937 British Industries Fair Advert pp666 and 667; and p331
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
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