Weston and Grice
of the Stour Valley Works, and Cwmbran
Bar iron and railway fastenings.
1855 Mr. Grice senior entered into partnership with Mr. Joseph D. Weston, under the style of Weston and Grice, and erected large new works at Spon Lane, called the Stour Valley Works, of which the two Grice sons took the management. Under their superintendence improved machinery was introduced whereby considerable economy was effected in the manufacture of bolts and nuts and other railway fastenings.[1]
1862 The business increased so rapidly that further extensions of the works became necessary so the firm purchased the Cwm Bran Works, Newport, Monmouthshire.
1862 Exhibited at the 1862 London Exhibition showing the manufacture of bolts using ingenious machinery and also nuts made "at 2 operations" whilst those of Watkins and Keen were made "at once"[2].
1864 Patent Nut and Bolt Co took over Weston and Grice of Stour Valley Works, West Bromwich, and Cwmbran near Newport[3].
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