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 162,238 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.

Oxfordshire Ironstone Co

From Graces Guide

1921 The company was owned by Baldwins (60 percent) and Brymbo Steel Co (40 percent)[1].

1934 Baldwins included the Fairwood Tin Plate Co, Oxfordshire Ironstone Co, (jointly with Stewarts and Lloyds), Elba Tin Plate Co (jointly with the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co), the Briton Ferry Works, the Cribbwr Fawr Collieries, Dowlais Collieries, and the Basic Slag and Phosphate Co[2].

1951 Nationalised under the Iron and Steel Act; became part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Jun 06, 1921
  2. Baldwins: 1934 Review
  3. Hansard 19 February 1951