Identifier: griffithsguideto00grif (find matches)
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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ONE OF THE DARLASTON STEEL AND IRON COMPANYS BLAST FURNACES, AT DARLASTON. SKETCHES OF NOTED IRON AVORKS. (l^J-^) Steel. They make mils, wire rods, and all otlier kinds ofiron. Eails are laid down to all parts of the works.They have a self-tipping apparatus on the mine banksof the furnaces. Also extensive collieries and mines,850 acres in all, 350 freehold and 500 leasehold,l)e8ides 55 acres of thick coal 12 yards thick. Theirproperty contains the Brooch coal, the Heathen coal,and various other seams, the new mine stone, the roughliill white stone, the Gubbin and shales and blue flats. This firm make cliannL4 iron and rails and sell in tlieopen market very large quantities of coal. Besidestheir own pig iron which is of high StafTordshire quality,they purchase and consume as a mixture Lilleshallfrom Shropshire, and Barrow pig from Lancashire tomix with their own make. Name of managing directorcan be give at office, 84, Caimon Street. Till-: Albert and Moxley Iron Works. The former of t

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