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