Long serving staff were presented with gold watches. Harry Anderson, Bob Leek, Miss I. M. Stanhope and Wilfred Harper are mentioned.

The firm was planning to widen its customer base after receiving the BS 5750 quality award. Howard E. Perry of Willenhall is mentioned, and Klaus Wasmuht (right) and Neil Webb are pictured.

Gas-fired heating units receiving their final checks before being send to the South African Iron and Steel Industrial Corporation. A. E. Griffiths (Smethwick) Limited is mentioned.

Management buy-out set up by Roy Taylor with backing from Barclays Bank. The photograph shows (from left) John Rhodes of Deloitte Haskins and Sells, Ron Reavette, Cecil Buckett from DHS and Simon Ranshaw of Edge Ellison Hatwell and Pritchett.

A 120-ton capacity hydraulic bloom pusher, completed under licence from Moeller and Neuman GmbH., St. Ingbert-Saar, Germany, and built to the order of Priest Furnaces Ltd of Middlesborough, destined for the Guest Keen Iron and Steel Works, Cardiff.

In 1969 during a strike by ISTC technical branch staff, a frying pan went missing and it did not reappear until the closure of the works. Bill Sirs, the Iron and Steel Trades Confederations and the Express & Star are mentioned, and the photograph shows la

Tarmac was facing a large bill to clear contamination and drainage problems on the redundant site. The photograph shows Labour Councillor and ex-steelworker Bert Turner looking over site.

The firm was probably the only firm in the country to still make chains by the side welding method. The photograph shows (left to right) W. Ward, A. Ward and R. Edwards welding the wrought iron link together with a double hafted hammer.

The firm used a replica of Dudley Castle the Interbuild trade show at the NEC in Birmingham, in order to boost business. Barry Spooner is mentioned. The photograph shows Mandy Hill with the latest turbo cystern.

The firm were the first foundry to receive an award from Lansing Linde of Basingstoke, in recognition of the quality levels reached in the supply of casting for manufacturing forklift trucks. The photograph shows (left to right) Clive Hawley, Andrew Siddo