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Title: Griffiths' Guide to the iron trade of Great Britain ... an elaborate review of the iron (and) coal trades for last year, addresses and names of all ironmasters, with a list of blast furnaces, iron manufactories, and other statistics and information respecting iron and coal ..
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Griffiths, Samuel, editor of "The London Iron Trade Exchange"
Subjects: Coal trade Iron industry and trade
Publisher: London, Published for the Proprietor
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto
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s ofEurope. Addenbrooke, Smith & Pidcock, are thedescendants of the oldest Ironmasters in Staffordshire(the Addenbrookes we refer to). The Addenbrookesworked the Moorcroft concern in Mr. Wilkinsons time ; Messrs.they liave three Blast Fiurnaces at Eough Hay, and brookc, thehave obtained a patent for drawing off the gas which antrof thesupersedes all others. We saw it in operation at the i^nsTaflbSDalmellington Works, in Scotland, the other day, with ^^^^^^pride and admiration. Addenbrooke, Smith, and Pid-cock, and Wm. Ward and Sons, of New Priestlields,have alwajs made first-class forge Iron in the chstrict,and invariably get a top price. The Earl of Dudleys Malleable Iron Works, are situ- The Eariated at Eound Oak, Brierly Hill. They were planned Round Oakand erected by the late Eichard Smith, who, up to a short °^ *time before his death, was agent to the noble Earl. Wehave frequently walked through them and admired thearrangements from beixinnin- to end. The works stand
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THE STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRADE. Gl on an extensive plateau, close to the main Stourbridgeroad, the Stourbridge canal ministering most con-veniently to the whole west side; a pubhc railway,likeunse, serves up to the works; the arrangements forloading and unloachng coal. Iron, and all other materials,are perfect, securing the very minimum labour cost forthe manual power exerted. There are fifty-four puddlingfurnaces, ^rith all appHances of the most perfect descrip-tion, adapted to convert the puddled Iron, made hereinto bars, rods, and hoops. Angle Iron of all sizes,lengths, and shapes, small bridge rails, T, and otherkinds, tiurntable iron, crate bar iron, nut and bolt, boatbeam, boat bead convex, and indeed all kinds of shapesand forms, too numerous to be mentioned. An enor-mous investment has been made in roUs alone. Themost difficult forms and fashions are roUed at theseworks, which may -with truth be called the modelworks of the Black Country. The excellence of the Ironis acknowledge
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