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Stewarts & Lloyds was a steel tube manufacturer with its headquarters in Glasgow at 41 Oswald Street. The company was created in 1903 by the amalgamation of two of the largest iron and steel makers in Britain: A. & J. Stewart & Menzies, Coatbridge , North Lanarkshire , Scotland; and Lloyd & Lloyd, Birmingham , England.
This Manning Wardle design dates from 1917. Worked for Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd. Being cosmetically restored at Shildon. 45 Colwyn 0-6-0 ST: Northampton & Lamport Railway: Built in 1933 to a Manning Wardle design after Kitson & Co acquired all drawings and plans after closure in 1926. This Manning Wardle design dates from 1917. Worked for Stewarts ...
Corby was built by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns of Newcastle in response to the success of the first batch of seven locomotives designed to work at Stewarts & Lloyds. Withdrawn from service in 1969 from Corby and was preserved on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, 63 worked on the K&WVR for a short time in the 1980s. After a period of ...
Corby has football, rugby union [55] cricket [56] and bowls clubs which are named after the original owners of the town’s former steelworks, Stewarts & Lloyds. Corby is also home to the Corby East Midlands International Swimming Pool, which opened in 2009, which in turn hosts the town's amateur swimming club. [57]
Current Status Additional Notes Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST: 3850 Juno: Green Static New to Stewarts & Lloyds ironstone quarries, Buckminster: SR Battle of Britain Class: 34051 Winston Churchill: BR Lined Green Static Hauled Winston Churchill's Funeral Train LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0: 5000: LMS Lined Black Static First Black Five in class ...
Doll was built by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. in 1919 (works number 1641), and was one of three identical engines built for Hickmanas at Sydenham ironstone quarries, near Banbury in Oxfordshire. [1] The quarries were closed in 1925 following the takeover by Stewarts & Lloyds Minerals in April 1925, and the three engines (named after Hickmans ...
Stewarts & Lloyds was returned to its former owners in 1954; and Colvilles in 1955. [2] Shortages of strip steel led to the need to increase the capacity for producing strip steel and tin plate, the first strip mill in Great Britain having been opened at Ebbw Vale in the late 1930s.
Ethnic and cultural diversity has broadened and there is now a purpose-built mosque on the site of the former apprentices' training school of the old Stewarts & Lloyds tube works. The coal mining past is still significant; the area has suffered widespread undermining, which was a serious limit to new construction until relatively recently.