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Redpath, Brown and Co

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1918. From ‘Kempes Year Book’
1918. From ‘Kempes Year Book’

of Edinburgh and London

of Trafford Park, Manchester

1802 Company founded.

1896 Public company. The company was registered on 15 October, to acquire the business of iron and steel merchants of the firm of the same name. [1]

1900 Catalogue of steel sectional material. [2]

1920s Bolckow, Vaughan and Co amalgamated with Redpath, Brown and Co, makers of structural steel, with works in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow[3].

1937 Steel structural engineers and merchants. [4]

1961 Iron and steel merchants and constructional engineers. 2,916 employees. [5]

Sources of Information

  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  2. The Engineer of 19th October 1900 p402
  3. Aberconway
  4. 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  5. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE