English Steel Corporation
English Steel Forge and Engineering Corporation of River Don Works, Sheffield and North Street Works, Openshaw, Manchester
1928 A merger of companies in the steel industry was announced, involving parts of Vickers, Vickers-Armstrongs and Cammell, Laird and Co [1]. This would involve all of the steel interests of the 3 contributing groups, except for interests in guns, ammunition and tanks. A new company would be created to take over these interests: the English Steel Corporation Ltd. The constituent parts from Vickers-Armstrongs were:
- River Don works, Sheffield
- Attercliffe works, Sheffield
- Holme Lane works, Sheffield
- Openshaw works, Manchester
- Drop forging plant at Elswick
and from Vickers:
and from Cammell, Laird and Co:
- Cyclops Steel and Iron works, Sheffield,
- Grimesthorpe works, Sheffield, and
- The Yorkshire Steel and Iron works, Penistone
1929 Became a public company.
1934 New company Firth-Vickers Stainless Steels formed to acquire the stainless steel interests of Thomas Firth and John Brown and the English Steel Corporation, which would jointly own the new company[2].
1935 See English Steel Corporation:1935 Review
1937 Steel manufacturers. [3]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1940 Advert. Engineer's tools. [4]
1945 Advert. Small tools. [5]
1951 Nationalised under the Iron and Steel Act; became part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain [6]
1954 Vickers Ltd and Cammell, Laird and Co agreed to purchase this company which was their former steel making subsidiary from the Holding and Realization Agency [7].
1961 Parent of 20 subsidiaries. Employ 16,000 persons. Of River Don Works, Sheffield. [8]
1967 English Steel Corporation was nationalised and incorporated in British Steel Corporation. Compensation of £21.75M paid to the owners Vickers (75%) and Cammell, Laird and Co (25%) [9].
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 18 December 1928
- ↑ The Times, 12 July 1934
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p148
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p182
- ↑ Hansard 19 February 1951
- ↑ The Times, 15 June 1954
- ↑ 1961 Guide to Key British Enterprises
- ↑ The Times, 30 January 1968
- The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978/9. ISBN 0-903485-65-6