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 164,245 pages of information and 246,075 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.

GKN (Cwmbran)

From Graces Guide

Note: This is a sub-section of GKN

1950 of Cwmbran Works, Cwmbran. Maker of all types of Grey Iron Castings (Patent Railway Sleepers, Rail Chairs, Base and Sole Plates, Brake Blocks and Shoes, Axle Boxes, Buffer Cylinders, Patent Honeycombe Floor Plates, Repetition Castings, Railway Fastenings).

1964 The foundries lost business when British Rail took its work back in house[1]

1967 became part of GKN Castings


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, June 2, 1964