Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 1154342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,676 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Bell Brothers

From Graces Guide
Revision as of 12:56, 2 December 2011 by PaulF (talk | contribs)

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.

1883 Building a plant to make soda using the ammonia process from the salt from the deposit at Port Clarence that was being developed by Newcastle Chemical Works Co[2].

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. [3]

1914 Ironmasters, colliery and ironstone mine owners. Specialities: pig iron manufacturing, coals, coke, ironstone, limestone etc. Employees 6,000. [4]

Late 1920s Dorman, Long and Co took over the concerns of Bell Brothers and Bolckow, Vaughan and Co[5]

1927 See Aberconway for information on the company and its history.


See Also

Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Rise of Big Business by Hilary Adair Marquand, Edward Austin, Gossage Robinson, Mark Casson, J. Morgan Ress, Douglas Knoop, Alfred Plummer
  2. ↑ The North-Eastern Daily Gazette, 24 October 1883
  3. ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  4. ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  5. ↑ [1] Wikipedia
Retrieved from "https://gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Bell_Brothers&oldid=331421"
Privacy policy Disclaimers About Grace’s Guide Contact Grace’s Guide

Grace's Guide web site design is Copyright © 2025 by Grace's Guide Ltd. The text of this web site is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 

MW1.43