Bell Brothers
From Graces Guide
of Cleveland
- 1844 Company established by Isaac Lowthian Bell. [1]
- 1854 Three furnaces and made 12,536 tons of pig-iron.
- 1866 See 1866 Cleveland Blast Furnaces for detail of furnaces.
- 1873 Converted to a private company.
- 1899 Became a public company. According to the prospectus 'produced during the past three years an annual average of pig-iron, 320,000 tons; coal, 715,000 tons; coke, 305,000 tons; ironstone, 40,000,000 tons; and limestone, 1,165,000 tons.' The company was registered on 24 January, to take over the business of iron masters and colliery owners of a private company of the same name. [2]
- 1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of Petrol Motors see the 1917 Red Book
- 1914 Ironmasters, colliery and ironstone mine owners. Specialities: pig iron manufacturing, coals, coke, ironstone, limestone etc. Employees 6,000. [3]
- 1927 See Aberconway for information on the company and its history.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Rise of Big Business by Hilary Adair Marquand, Edward Austin, Gossage Robinson, Mark Casson, J. Morgan Ress, Douglas Knoop, Alfred Plummer
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book