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of Airdrie, Scotland
1898 Company established.
1914 Wire rope manufacturers. Specialities: mining ropes, aerial ropeways, ropes for oil wells, logging, cranes, elevators, power transmission, ships' hawsers, towlines and rigging, steam trawling, dredgers, steam ploughs, suspension bridges etc. [1]
1925/6 Acquired by British Ropes Ltd[2].
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