Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,359 pages of information and 246,083 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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British Steel Piling Co

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'All British Wonder' concrete mixer. Weight-saving was evidently not a design criterion
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1959. Piling Frame in Use.
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of London and Claydon (near Ipswich).

1905 Formed by Edward Le Bas

1921 Made treble-drum steam-driven skid-mounted winch for Auckland Harbour Board (NZ).[1]

1924 Changed their address from Dock House, Billiter-street, E.C. 3 to 54 a, Parliament-street, London, S. W. 1.[2]

1930 The Edward Le Bas Investment Trust was formed to acquire at least 9 tenths of the shares in Le Bas Tube Co, British Steel Piling Co, Le Bas (West Africa) Ltd., Edward Le Bas and Co[3]

1930 Description of pile driving plant for Adelaide Harbour [4]

1968 Piles for Tilbury Docks [5]

1972 renamed Edward Le Bas[6]

Renamed BSP International Foundations and part of Tex Holdings

Now (2024) named BSP-TEX, with HQ in Great Blakenham, Ipswich. See BSP-TEX history wepage.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1922/05/05 p506
  2. The Engineer 1924/03/21
  3. The Times Oct. 25, 1930
  4. Engineering 1930/01/10
  5. The Engineer 1968/01/26 p194
  6. The Times Sept. 13, 1972