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Whitecross Co

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Whitecross Company of Warrington

1864 Incorporated as a limited company.

1914 Wire manufacturers and galvanizers. Specialities: iron and steel rolled and drawn wires, patent steel wires, barb wire, wire ropes, wire nails, wire netting. Employees 1,500. [1]

1920 Wire rod rolling mill. [2]

1932 Lancashire Steel Corporation acquired Whitecross Co of Warrington[3].

1935 See Whitecross Co:1935 Review

1937 Supplier of Tru-Lay Ropes[4]

1960 Steel wire ropes. [5]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  2. ↑ The Engineer of 10th September 1920 p251
  3. ↑ The Times, 20 December 1932
  4. ↑ The Times, Jul 15, 1937
  5. ↑ Mining Year Book 1960. Published by Walter E. Skinner. Advert p
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