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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.
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 ...
The board members include renowned Scottish structural engineer William Arrol and Andrew Stewart, of the Lanarkshire-based steel tubemakers A & J Stewart and Menzies, subsequently Stewarts & Lloyds. A manufacturing facility at Renfrew, Scotland based on the existing Porterfield Foundry was established in 1895
Stewarts & Lloyds; Summerlee Iron Works; W. Wilsontown Ironworks This page was last edited on 7 March 2012, at 12:05 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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 ...
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.
Two Indus locomotives were built in August 1962 – one for Richard Thomas and Baldwins’ Llanwern steelworks, the other for Stewarts & Lloyds Corby system. The main difference between the Indus and Taurus was in the type of hydraulic transmission – the Taurus used a differential compounding gearbox, while the Indus used a simple compounding ...
By the mid-1960 Finedon Top Lodge Quarry was being worked by Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd (to whom it was known as Wellingborough No. 5 pit), [14] providing ore for their steel works at Corby. The narrow-gauge Wellingborough Tramway took the ore from this and numerous other nearby quarries to the furnace sites and railway sidings north-east of ...