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The Birmingham Corporation Act 1875 empowered Birmingham Corporation to purchase the Birmingham Waterworks Company. The transaction was supervised by the Mayor of Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain, and completed on 1 January 1876 for the sum of £1,350,000 (equivalent to £160,405,360 in 2023) [2]. Chamberlain declared to a House of Commons committee
As of 2023, Birmingham has two Fortune 500 public companies: Regions Financial Corporation and Vulcan Materials Company. [1] Multiple other Birmingham companies rank in the top 1000. Private companies with revenue over one billion
Blyth v Birmingham Waterworks Company (1856) 11 Ex Ch 781 [1] concerns reasonableness in the law of negligence. It is famous for its classic statement of what negligence is and the standard of care to be met. [2]
McWane, Inc. is one of the world's largest manufacturers of iron water works and plumbing products and one of America's largest privately owned companies. [1] The company manufactures a host of different products including ductile iron pipe and fittings, cast iron soil pipe and fittings, heavy duty couplings, utility poles, network switches, monitoring equipment and related products. [2]
As a result, the Cambridge Water Company was forced to cease pumping the water, and instead find a new borehole elsewhere. [4] An investigation immediately ensued. The investigators concluded that the PCE had come from Eastern Counties Leather plc, a leather tannery in Sawston. The tannery used PCE as a degreasing agent, beginning in the 1960s ...
Sarehole Mill is a Grade II listed water mill, in an area once called Sarehole, on the River Cole in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. It is now run as a museum by the Birmingham Museums Trust . It is known for its association with J. R. R. Tolkien and is one of only two working water mills in Birmingham, with the other being New Hall Mill in ...
The economy of Birmingham is dominated by the service sector, which accounted for 88% of the city's employment in 2012. [2] Birmingham is the largest centre in Great Britain for employment in public administration, education and health; [3] and after Leeds the second-largest centre outside London for employment in financial and other business services.
The former Ledsam Street Works of Belliss and Morcom works, located in Ladywood, Birmingham in 1988 Belliss and Morcom reciprocating engine and generator set, preserved at the Crich Tramway Museum Belliss and Morcom is a manufacturer and supplier of oil-free reciprocating compressors , technologies and services. [ 1 ]