Wigan Rolling Mills Co
of Pagefield, Wigan
1876 James John Christie, Manager, designed and patented a reversing rolling mill. Described and illustrated in The Engineer [1]
1888 Company incorporated.
1914 Rollers of iron and steel bars and hoops. Specialities: merchant bars, horse-shoe bars, best and best best bars, baling hoops, special splayed coopers' hoops, "Viking" and "Norseman" brands. Employees 400. [2]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer, 28 July 1876. p.60
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
