Dartec, specialist in testing machines, Stourbridge
D-EXP/P/I39/11 8 Oct 1977 Wolverhampton Archives
A steel bar which was snapped by an earthquake simulator, due to be sent to New Zealand for research into making buildings safe from earthquakes.
D-EXP/P/I39/11 8 Oct 1977 Wolverhampton Archives
A steel bar which was snapped by an earthquake simulator, due to be sent to New Zealand for research into making buildings safe from earthquakes.
D-EXP/P/I40/168 29 Oct 1985 Wolverhampton Archives
The firm used stainless steel to meet the high hygiene standards in the food and drink industry. Villiers Chillcott is mentioned.
D-EXP/P/I45/14 23 Nov 1982 Wolverhampton Archives
The firm commissioned a launching platform for a deep sea diving bell to be shipped to Australia, manufactured by Precision Machinery and Steel Fabrications of Folkes Road, Lye. The photograph shows Tom Edwards and Jack Ransom (right).
D-EXP/P/I45/23 25 Aug 1978 Wolverhampton Archives
The firm was celebrating its golden jubilee. The photograph shows Mary Cund with a teapot and the world’s first stainless steel toast rack.
D-EXP/P/I36/29 24 Mar 1987 Wolverhampton Archives
Tubular steel helical foil being inspected before export to Foster Wheeler Energy, at Sluiskil in Holland
D-EXP/P/W1V/1 18 Oct 1991 Wolverhampton Archives
A stainless steel column known as the Statue of Light and bearing the town motto Out of Darkness Cometh Light was commissioned by Wolverhampton Council and sculpted by Hugh Tessier. The Department of the Environment is mentioned.
D-EXP/P/I40/249 30 Nov 1967 Wolverhampton Archives
A link arm spreader set up at Lloyds Proving House, Netherton. The Steel Company of Wales, Port Talbot, and Cheshire are mentioned.
D-EXP/P/I28/34 22 Jan 1987 Wolverhampton Archives
The company was to take over an empty ex-Ductile Steel headquarters building in Planetary Road, Willenhall. Dennis Hickman, Cleveland, Bristol, and the Department of Trade and Industry are mentioned.
D-EXP/P/I28/113 15 Dec 1972 Wolverhampton Archives
The new bright drawing shop showing in the foreground a Samuel Platt patented hydraulically-driven two-roll, variable angle variable speed bar straightening machine.
D-EXP/P/I41/96 5 May 1993 Wolverhampton Archives
Fred Steel and John Jentgen with love birds Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Each month the birds were presented to the production team with the poorest record, to be cared for by that team for a month.