Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,256 pages of information and 244,497 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Barworth Flockton

From Graces Guide

Steel company of Ecclesfield, Sheffield

Private company

1974 Acquired Little Matlock Rolling Mill

1881 Peter Slack was joint managing director; the company produced high speed steels and took steel; 250 employees; had a healthy business supplying US machine tool makers[1]

1994 Installed new high precision rolling mills to make flat and square section bar[2]

1997 Acquired by Firth Rixson from Barworth Holdings[3].

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Nov 03, 1981
  2. The Times, May 18, 1994
  3. The Times, December 24, 1997