Display board at Black Country Living Museum
of Lea Brook Tube Works, Wednesbury
1888 Company established.
1893 Incorporated as a limited company. The business which had been carried on by Humphrey Foster as Ratcliff and Foster was converted into a private limited company as Foster Brothers[1]
1911 Manufacturer of Tubes for the Railways.[2]
1914 Tube makers and engineers. Specialities: tubes and fittings, high-pressure steam pipe-work. [3]
1934 Iissued bankruptcy notice against Clifford Llewellyn Brown[4]
1961 Associated with Foster Brothers (London) and Foster Brothers Plastics
Presumably later Fosters Power Piping of Wednesbury
See Also
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times Jun 02, 1893
- ↑ Bradshaw’s Railway Manual 1911
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The London Gazette 24 August 1934