Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Wolsingham Steel Co

From Graces Guide

of Wolsingham, Bishop Auckland, manufacturer of steel castings, forgers of ingots and steel fabricators.

1893 Henry Gervas Stobart joined John Rogerson and Co, Wolsingham Steel Works, as partner and assistant manager; Stanners Closes Steel Works, Wolsingham, near Darlington[1]

1900 John Edwin Rogerson was chairman of John Rogerson and Co, of Wolsingham Steel Works[2]

1938 Wolsingham Steel Co gained a patent with G. Blair on "Improvements in and relating to vibratory screens"

1943 Patents with Thomas Liddle on Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of rudder frames, of mooring chains and of brackets for propeller shafts.

By 1965 was a member of Doxford and Sunderland Shipbuilding and Engineering Group

1988 Wolsingham Steel Ltd was in Liquidation[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Proposal for membership of I Mech E
  2. The Times Nov. 21, 1900
  3. The London Gazette 3 November 1988