madannie77 Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Some adverts for Sheffield based businesses from "A Technical Survey of the Iron & Steel Works of Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company", published by Iron & Coal Trades Review, 1955. Some are to be expected, as the companies are part of The United Steel Companies Limited, but plenty are not. Abrafact Brightside Foundry& Engineering Cooper & Turner Darwins Group Davy United (this advert was across two pages) The Sheffield Twist Drill & Steel Company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madannie77 Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 Some more: Edgar Allen & Co Flame Hardeners Ltd General Refractories Ltd Hadfields Merrill Pumps John M Moorwood Ltd - this advert was across two pages, so there is a dodgy join in the middle Newton Chambers Nitralloy Limited Rapax Limited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madannie77 Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 And some more: S Rhodes & Co Samuel Fox Thomas Marshall & Co Thos W Ward Ltd The United Steel Companies Limited F H Wheeler William Wild & Sons Ltd G P Wincott Limited Yorkshire Engine Co Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old rider Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I have servised equipment at a few of these factories. The company I worked at was started in premises belonging to Flame Hardeners on Bailey Lane. We used to service Flame Hardener's induction Hardeners and their M.D Mr. Conrad Bramhill acted our metalurgist. After he died there was a bit of a split and we moved into our own factory Flame Hardeners still exist. Dormer's drill factory was on Cemetery Road. They also had factories in Worksop and Nottingham making taps & dies. They used to make drills by heating the blanks then passing them through dies that rolled the flutes into the blank. Some pundits claimed this was an inferior method of production and that flutes milled into the blank was better. Dormer was bought by Sandvik, a Swedish company. Eventually they closed the factory and sent the machines to Brazil. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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