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Keys of Steel, Willenhall

D-EXP/P/I51/106 30 Nov 1992 Wolverhampton Archives

The firm was celebrating its 40th anniversary with higher sales and a growing workforce. Thomas Marshall Sambrook and Derek Sambrook are mentioned. The photograph shows Richard Hyde with a set of old English antique keys.

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Wilkins and Mitchell, Darlaston

D-EXP/P/I30/167 25 Jun 1980 Wolverhampton Archives

Power presses which were designed to produce body presses for the Mini Metro had been installed at BL’s Pressed Steel Fisher plant in Swindon.

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Round Oak Steelworks, Brierley Hill

D-EXP/P/I32/370 1 Mar 1984 Wolverhampton Archives

The site was being redeveloped to house industrial units, after its closure aggravated Dudley’s unemployment situation.

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Bronx Engineering, Lye, Stourbridge

D-EXP/P/I32/373 4 Nov 1969 Wolverhampton Archives

The photograph shows a set of bending rolls for cold and hot rolling of steel plates at the Derby works of International Combustion, Ltd.

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BSR, Garratts Lane steelworks, Stourbridge

D-EXP/P/I32/426 8 Dec 1982 Wolverhampton Archives

Workers after receiving the shock news of closure. Dawn Whittaker, Jackie Pearson, Joan Nicholls, May Smout and Marie Philpotts are mentioned, and the photograph shows Sandra Lewis.

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TI Accles and Pollock, steel tubes, Broadwell, Oldbury

D-EXP/P/I37/172 1 Jul 1980 Wolverhampton Archives

The company was awarded a contract for high pressure tubes to be installed in the Drax B power station in Yorkshire. The photograph shows hydraulic testing of U-bends.

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Offshore Marine Engineering, Aldridge

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).

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Bronx Engineering, Lye, Stourbridge

D-EXP/P/I32/144 20 Jun 1985 Wolverhampton Archives

A hot plate levelling and roller straightening machine that was being supplied to Krupp of West Germany, to be installed at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company mill at Hadisolb near Cairo.