Denis Butler preparing hand rails for a fire escape.

Bar of white hot metal in the workshops.

The firm’s fabrication shop in West Germany had been acquired by Midland Aluminium of Wombourne.

A new company, Ductile Themech, was set up to market the group’s energy-saving furnace designs.

A new machining centre.

A flying shear installation at the steel service centre of Eisenhof Gesellschaft mbH in Linz, Austria.

Harry Cooke cutting a stainless steel sheet to size.

A special section oval tube developed for the top rail of trampolines produced by Nissen Trampoline Co. of Brentwood.

A consignment of steel conduit being checked before despatch. Fitter and Poulton Ltd of Birmingham is mentioned.

A water-cooled electric furnace roof ring fabricated for Brymbo Steel Works, Wrexham.