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The Finance of Manufacturing 1850 - 1885


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The Finance of Manufacturing Industry in the Sheffield Area c 1850 - 1885

Here is a link to a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Lucy Newton of the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Leicester September 1993 in pdf format.

From the introduction: “A study concerning industrial finance and business structure in Sheffield is of importance because of very particular local developments from the mid-nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1880 an almost uniquely large number of companies emerged, financed and organised locally through the adoption of limited liability in the city, contrary to the general national pattern.”

The thesis is naturally very academic, but it does include very detailed information in case studies about firms such as Yorkshire Engine, Samuel Fox, Steel, Peech and Tozer and the large steel firms generally.

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