Sheffield Forge and Rolling Mills Co
From Graces Guide
of Millsands Works, Sheffield
1872 The company was established on 18 July. [1]
1951 Nationalised under the Iron and Steel Act; became part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain[2]
1953 Sold by Holding and Realization Agency to Darwins Ltd[3].
By 1966 was a subsidiary of Balfour and Darwins[4]
1968 Sheffield Rolling Mills was formed as a company jointly owned by British Steel, Balfour and Darwins (38%) and James Neill Holdings (17%) to operate the Tinsley Park bar mills of British Steel at Sheffield, which were 5 years old; the private sector companies would transfer work there from their older plant[5]
1974 British Steel bought out its partners in Sheffield Rolling Mills[6]
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