Western Tin Plate Works
of Llanelly, Wales
1879 The company was formed and took over the closed Marshfield Iron Works
1881 The Western Tinplate Works Limited was registered
By 1893 Western Tinplate had 9 mills.
1897 The Western was one of 3 local companies that were combined to form the Llanelly Steel Co.
1923 The South Wales Tinplate Corporation was registered - which represented a selling organisation for: [1]
- a) Richard Thomas and Co (who own six works in Carmarthenshire);
- b) Kidwelly Tinplate Co;
- c) Ashburnham Tinplate Co, Burry Port;
- d) The Old Castle Iron and Tin Plate Co, Llanelly;
- e) The Western Tinplate Works, Llanelly.
1931 The last four works, above, resigned from the Corporation.
1937 British Industries Fair Advert for Welsh Tinplate Works. As part of Richard Thomas and Co. Tinplate and Blackplate. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. D.328) [2]
1939 A founder of the Llanelly Associated Tinplate Companies Limited[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] A History of Carmarthenshire
- ↑ 1937 British Industries Fair Advert pp666 and 667; and p432
- ↑ The Times, Apr 12, 1939