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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 ...
Worked at Stewarts & Lloyds at Corby before the delivery of RSH 0-6-0 saddle tanks in the 1950s. After withdrawal from service in 1968 was preserved in storage at the Kent and East Sussex Railway from 1972, and then at Woolwich before being moved to Peak Rail in Derbyshire in 2002, moving again to Ruddington in 2003 for restoration to working ...
Stewarts & Lloyds, together with other steel manufacturers were nationalised in the 1960s becoming British Steel Corporation. The steel industry was later rationalised leading to the end of steel manufacturing in Corby in 1979. The house and grounds were later acquired by Corby Borough Council. The house has now been sold as a family home and ...
In 1967 the British steel industry was nationalised and the Stewarts & Lloyds steel tube works at Corby became part of British Steel Corporation. The Government approved a ten-year development strategy with expenditure of £3,000 million from 1973 onwards, the objective of which was to convert BSC from a large number of small scale works, using ...
Part of the plant at Staveley was a sulphuric acid manufacturing unit making use of the Contact Process. During the First World War the company began producing sulphuric, nitric and picric acids, TNT and guncotton. After the war the company developed a range of chlorinated organics, purchasing salt-bearing land near Sandbach, Cheshire. The salt ...
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Locomotive No. 86 that ran on the Tramway until 1966, seen preserved at the Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum The quarry face of Glebe Quarry, seen in 2006. The Wellingborough Tramway was an industrial narrow-gauge railway that connected a series of ironstone mines and quarries with the Midland Railway and later with the ironworks on the north side of Wellingborough.