David Colville and Sons
Colvilles, of Dalzell Steel Works and Ravenscraig.
Motherwell, near Glasgow.
1871 Company founded by David Colville. The works dates from 18th October 1871 and started as a malleable iron works, manufacturing bars, beams, etc.
1880 The firm switched to steel production.
1888 Glasgow International Exhibition. Siemens plates, rolled bars and hammered blooms. [1]
1895 Incorporated as a private limited company.
1910 John Craig became a Director. [2]
1914 Manufacturers of steel and iron, Siemens open hearth mild steel, high tensile steel and nickel steel, boiler, ship and special quality plates, angles, bulb angles, channels, zed bars, tee bars, rounds and other sections, billets, blooms, ingots for forgings etc. [3]
1915 Colvilles took over the Clydebridge Works
1916 Colvilles had also purchased Glengarnock Iron and Steel Co in June 1916, and as submarines had become active, the Ministry requested Colvilles to undertake large expansions, to meet the acute demand for steel plates to build Standard Ships. The enlargement of both works began in October 1916, at a cost of £1½ million.
1916 Harland and Wolff with John Brown and Co acquired a large share in the Motherwell steel works of David Colville and Sons, together with their collieries, to supply the yards.
1919 The Engineer published a summary of the company's history, read it here.
1920 Harland and Wolff acquired a controlling interest in the company[4]
1930 Became a public company
1931 The Lithgow brother agreed to merge their holdings in James Dunlop and Co with David Colville and Sons, as a consequence of which they joined the board of the Colville companies, forming Colvilles. It was decided to centralize pig iron manufacture at the former Dunlop's Clyde Iron Works. This resulted in the blast furnaces at Glengarnock closing down and the old rolling mill was also closed down.
See Colvilles.
Clydebridge Steel Works
"The Clydebridge Steel Works of David Colville and Sons, Ltd., are equipped for an output of over 5000 tons of plates per week, and, so far as the new portion of the works is concerned, represent the latest methods in steel works practice. Before giving a detailed account of the new plant, which we propose to so in what follows, reference may be made to the origin of the Clydebridge works and the development which has taken place during the last ten years." From The Engineer 1923/08/31.
Read the series of articles on The Clydebridge Steel Works
No. I - The Engineer 1923/08/31
See Also
Sources of Information
- History of Clydebridge[1]
- ↑ The Engineer of 27th April 1888 p338
- ↑ The Engineer 1957/02/08
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer 1921/01/14