of Spring Grove Paper Mills, Oughtibridge, Sheffield
1870 Company established.
1909 Incorporated as a limited company.
1914 Manufacturers of paper for newspaper printing. [1]
1926 - December. It was announced Peter Dixon and Son purchased water power rights with a capacity of 20,000 to 30,000 hP together with a large area of forest and farm lands, in Northern Finland to form a Finnish company for the purpose of converting the energy and material into pulp for their English mills. Messrs. Dixon stated that their first intention was to erect a pulp factory near their paper mill at Grimsby but inability to arrange favourable terms with the railway company.[2]
See also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer 1926/12/10