Atlas Steel and Iron Wire Rope Works

of Reddish, Stockport

c.1880 Frederick Whittaker Scott, who had been at Scott Brothers (of Manchester), formed these works in Reddish.

1889 From The Engineer, 17 May (Fig 3 not included here): 'Mr. F. W. Scott, of the Atlas Rope Works, Reddish, has recently devised a simple form of "locked" wire roping, and according to this invention two wires of the outer series of the strands or rope are held together by thin strips of metal - preferably steel - turned up at their outer edges, so as to partially embrace the wires and hold them in position. This construction is represented at Fig. 3, in which a indicates two or a pair of wires of an external series, held together by the metallic band b, turned up at its edges, as shown. The sets of wires thus secured are then twisted into strands or the outer coverings of roping, and in this manner the external wires are locked or held in their proper relative positions, so that should any become broken, they cannot spring out of their normal lays or direction'.

c.1925 Acquired by British Ropes

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