Horsehay Co
Horsehay Co Ltd. of Shropshire, bridge maker.
1754 A great deal of timber from Wrockwardine Wood was sold to the Coalbrookdale Co for the building of the Horsehay ironworks[1].
1754 Abraham Darby (1711-1763) had recently become lessee of the coal and ironstone near Ketley. Soon afterwards the Horsehay and Ketley ironworks began production.
1757 The mines in the township of Wrockwardine Wood began to supply ironstone to the Coalbrookdale partners' works at Coalbrookdale, Horsehay, and Ketley.
1886 The Horsehay Company was incorporated; it would operate upon and work or manufacture ores, minerals, and metals of all description, and for such purposes to acquire the business and assets of the Coalbrookdale Company, Limited, of Horsehay, Salop.[2]
1895 Advert.
1895 Iron bridge, girder and roof manufacturers; cast iron screw piles and all constructional work. John F. Wolff was their London agent. Address: 16 Eastcheap, E.C.[3]
1900 Company incorporated - Horsehay Co Ltd
1907 Produced the steelwork for the road bridge across the River Klang near the town of Klang in the former Federated Malay States. Four spans of 140 ft. Designed by F. J. Waring. Erected by the Federated Engineering Co. of Kuala Lumpur.[4]. See Belfield Bridge (Malaysia).
1922 Directors: Henry C. Simpson (Managing), H. R. G. Bayley, Joseph Simpson and Herbert Simpson. Secretary: J. Sydney Smith. Manufactures: Steelwork, etc., for bridges and roofs, mechanical engineering producer-gas plant apparatus, etc.
1943 Adamson-Horsehay Associated Ltd was incorporated, manufacturers and dealers in girders, bridges, steel work equipment, etc[5]
1951 Advert for Adamson-Horsehay Associated. Manufacturers of boilers of all types. Cranes. Presswork. Welded fabrications. Part of Adamson group with Joseph Adamson and Co and Adamson-Alliance Co. Listed as Horsehay Co
1951 Part of the Adamson Group
1961 HORSEHAY CO. LTD. on their expansion and are proud to announce that two members of the group were awarded contracts HORSELEY BRIDGE CARTE ..[6]
1967 Name changed to Adamson-Alliance (Horsehay) Ltd
1973 Name changed to Adamson-Alliance Ltd
1991 Name of Adamson-Alliance Ltd changed to Crosby Doors Ltd
An interesting selection of photographs of the works and its products is available here. These include four fluted cast iron columns made for the Buenos Aires Corn Exchange.