The firm was celebrating its golden anniversary. Bob Pass is mentioned and the photograph shows craftsmen welding giant silos out of steel plate.

The firm used stainless steel to meet the high hygiene standards in the food and drink industry. Villiers Chillcott is mentioned.

A giant floating six-ton steel buoy for BP oil terminal at Das Island in the Gulf was completed on time. Arnold Lester is quoted.

Open sized flooring panels made automatically in this machine steel strip by a forge welding process. Mr K. J. Chambers and Mr R. G. Tench are mentioned in the article.

The photograph shows John Innes receiving a British Quality assurance award from Peter Archer MP alongside Philip Wright.

A new campaign for 40,000 tons of iron and steel scrap was announced.

A reactor vessel base being shotblasted for a new chemical production plant in Northumberland for Boots. Metabrasive and Star Wars are mentioned.

Steam cleaning the inner shell of a stainless steel liquid gas storage vessel.

Lord Northesk unveiled a plaque commemorating the erection of the first commercial beam engine, designed by James Watt.

After a personal plea to Bill Sirs of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC) by Jim Doig at the TUC conference in Brighton, striking miners received a donation of cash and food. The Cannock Chase Miners Hardship Fund is mentioned.