St. Pancras Ironwork Co
of Old St. Pancras Road, opposite Old St. Pancras Church, London N.W. and York Road, Kings Cross, London N.
Engineers Ironfounders and Smiths.
1868 Scott's Patent Glass Walls and Economical Greenhouses.[1]
1870 Iron bridge builders
1878 Discussion of Paper EMERY AND CORUNDUM WHEELS FOR GRINDING AND SURFACING METALS AND
OTHER MATERIALS by By Arthur H. Bateman, F.C.S: 'Mr. Arthur Pye Smith (of St. Pancras Iron Works)
described several specimens of work which he had placed
upon the table, and which had been got up by the emery
wheel. This was principally used at their establishment
for rougher kinds of work.A great deal was done by
labourers, and by boys ; as, for instance, in cleaning up
common cast-iron bars,of which a boy could do from
100 to 150 in an hour. Thin cast iron,also, could be
reduced by this means when it would not be safe to use
a chisel for fear of breaking it, and only recently they
had turned out a number of wrought iron gratings which
were finished up by the emery wheel, and which they
could not have done at all at the price otherwise. When
they first put up the wheels, there was a good deal of
prejudice against them; but,fortunately, one of their
men had used them before, and was, therefore, put on the job, and in a short time the prejudice was to a great
extent overcome, but not entirely.He found the best
way was to let the men who were on piecework use the
wheels, and then their prejudice soon vanished; in fact,
now, the men were asking for more machines. He had
tried a great many different makes of emery wheels, and
found some of them liable to a fault often alleged against
them, namely, that they glazed, and the work stuck to
the surface of the wheel ; but that had never occurred
with any of Ransome's wheels.
The Chairman asked if Mr. Smith had had any instances of a wheel breaking.
Mr. Smith said there were only two instances, which
occurred in one day, and he found out afterwards that
one of the nuts had been loosened. The man responsible for the wheels inspected them every morning, and saw
they were in good order,and he did so on this occasion,
and not understanding how the accident could have
occurred, he made a strict investigation, when it appeared that the nut had been loosened purposely.
Fortunately, no one was hurt,and nothing of the kind
had occurred since.'[2]
1905 Steam lorries.
The 1894/5 O.S. Town Plan here shows St. Pancras Iron Works opposite Old St. Pancras Church. At the back was Goldington Street, and it was bounded at the sides by houses. The plot of land is now occupied by Art Deco-style blocks of flats.