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.

Caledonian Wire Rope Co

From Graces Guide

wire rope manufacturers, of Airdrie, Scotland

1898 Company established.

1914 Wire rope manufacturers. Specialities: mining ropes, aerial ropeways, ropes for oil wells, logging, cranes, elevators, power transmission, ships' hawsers, towlines and rigging, steam trawling, dredgers, steam ploughs, suspension bridges etc. [1]

1925/6 Acquired by British Ropes Ltd[2].

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Sources of Information

  1. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  2. National Archives