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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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 Hematite Iron Co

From Graces Guide
1909: Following the explosion of four boilers out of a range of eleven

of Distington Works, Cumberland

1881 The company was registered on 8 December. [1]

1909 Explosion of four boilers out of a range of eleven. See photo.[2]

1927 Owned by United Steel Companies

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Sources of Information

  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  2. 'The Distington Multiple Boiler Explosion and other Multiple Boiler Explosions' by Edward George Hiller, National Boiler and General Insurance Co Ltd