Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 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.
Distington Engineering Co of Workington, Cumberland.
Acquired by United Steel Companies
1951 One of the companies nationalised as part of the nationalisation of the iron and steel industry[1]
1954 One of the United Steel companies returned to private ownership[2]
By 1969 was owned by British Steel (see advert)
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