Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Webb, Shakespeare and Williams

From Graces Guide

of Loughor, Swansea, South Wales

1872 Erected Glamorgan Tinworks, Pontardulais, near Swansea. [1]

1937 Advert for Welsh Tinplate Works. As part of Richard Thomas and Co. Tinplate and Blackplates. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. D.328) [2]

1957 Bynea Holdings was formed by John S. Tregoning and Co Ltd in conjunction with Ductile Steels Ltd and Robert Benson, Lonsdale and Co Ltd to purchase Bynea Steel Works from the Holding and Realization Agency[3]. A regrouping of Bynea Steel Works Ltd and its subsidiaries took place such that the company owned the whole of St. Davids Tinplate Co, Glynhir Tinplate Co and Gorse Galvanising Co, as well as a controlling interest in Webb, Shakespeare and Williams Ltd [4].

See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. [1] An Aberlash Millionaire
  2. 1937 British Industries Fair Advert pp666 and 667; and p431
  3. The Times, 17 June 1960
  4. The Times, 1 June 1957