T. C. Jones and Co
of 27 Sterne Street, Shepherd's Bush, London, W, tool merchants and engineers suppliers
of Treorchy
1903 Company established by Thomas Charles Jones[1]
1914 Iron, metal and machinery merchants, engineers and demolition contractors. Specialities: demolition of works, mansions in town or country; erection of corrugated iron buildings. Carried out the whole of the demolition of King's Cross, Baker Street and Finchley Road Stations for the Metropolitan Railway and King's Cross Gas Works for the GNR. Employees 100. [2]
By 1947 was a subsidiary of George Cohen, Sons and Co[3]
1963 Joined the Multi-Storey Construction Association of Glasgow.
1969 Based in Treorchy. Acquired by British Steel Corporation which wanted to expand its building construction activities in South Wales, but did not include the separate Jones Reinforcement business[4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, January 19, 1924
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Times, Sep 27, 1947
- ↑ The Times, Mar 17, 1969