Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Co
Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Co Ltd. of Wolverhampton. Later of Mersey Iron Works, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
1857 Company established by John and Joseph Jones, at Church Lane, Wolverhampton
1880 Moved to the Shrubbery Works, Wolverhampton.
1892 See Advert.[1]
1904 '.... Another fruitful source of discussion has been the definite announcement that the Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Company. Limited (Messrs. Jones and Son) purchased about 22 acres of land in close proximity to the railway station towards Ince, on which they will erect an extensive plant, fitted with all modern appliances. It is expected that in about a month's time building operations will be and at first work will be found for a staff of about 500 employes, but subsequently this firm's advent to the district mean a very welcome influx into the place of about 2,000 men. Thus the depression which has been felt in the district since the collapse of the smelting works will be more then removed in the near future, especially there are rumours that these works will be restarted.' [2]
1905 Operations at the Mersey Iron Works at Ellesmere Port had started by December.
1929 Description of the Galloways 'Supermiser' system installed at Ellesmere Port for pre-heating the air supply to the four Lancashire boilers at the Ellesmere Port works.[3]
1946 Was a subsidiary company of John Summers and Sons Ltd[4].
1951 Nationalised under the Iron and Steel Act; became part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain[5]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Wolverhampton Red Book and Directory, 1892
- ↑ Birkenhead News - Wednesday 13 January 1904
- ↑ Engineering 1929/03/15
- ↑ The Times, 3 December 1945
- ↑ Hansard 19 February 1951