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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
© Sheffield Libraries Archives and Information, 2011
(v. 2.0 January 2011)
Front cover illustrations – left to right:
Casting electric arc furnace steel into ingot moulds, 1956
J. P. Lamb, Sheffield (Sheffield City Council, 1956) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 914.274 SST)
Advertisement for William Jessop & Sons, Brightside Works, Sheffield, 1900
White’s Sheffield District Directory, 1900 (Sheffield Local Studies Library and Sheffield Archives)
Charles Cammell & Co., Cyclops Works, Savile Street, Sheffield, c. 1850
(Sheffield Local Studies Library: Picture Sheffield S09740)
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This list details the main records for a large number of iron and steel firms available at Sheffield Archives, Sheffield Local Studies
Library and the World Metal Index (WMI). It is not a complete list of companies and it omits some items such as extracts and
articles from journals and newspapers. It also omits, on the whole, businesses that were solely concerned with small tool
manufacturer, for which a separate list is in preparation (though it is acknowledged there will be some overlap between the two). In
addition to business archives, there is other material available such as trade directories, industry magazines and photographs, local
authority planning application plans and large scale ordnance survey maps etc. which are not listed here. Consequently customers
are advised to search the Sheffield Local Studies Library and Archives catalogues in addition to checking this list.
The description and address for each company has been taken, in most instances, either from Kelly’s Directory of Sheffield and
Rotherham of 1851 or White’s Sheffield trade Directory of 1900. It is acknowledged, however that the description and address of
companies may have changed in the intervening and subsequent years.
Where a significant amount of material is available in other museums, libraries and archives these are noted.
Additional online services that are recommended are:
Picture Sheffield (an online image library of 45,000 photographs): www.picturesheffield.com
The National Archives Guide to Business Archives: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=375
The National Archives catalogue: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue
The National Archives Access to Archives (A2A) catalogue: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a
The National Register of Archives: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra
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The Archives Hub (archive collections in UK Universities and Colleges): http: //archiveshub.ac.uk
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust (includes Kelham Island Museum): www.simt.co.uk
Hawley Collection (The Hawley Collection is an internationally important collection of edge tools, cutlery and measuring
instruments, including some business records): www.sheffield.ac.uk/hawley
British Steel archive: www.britishsteelcollection.org.uk
Grace’s Guide to British Engineering www.gracesguide.co.uk
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Edgar Allen and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Imperial Steel Works, Sheffield
 Directors' letter books 1883-1900; order books, 1903 - 1935; accounts 1918 - 1930; miscellaneous items; company magazine, 1919 1966 (Sheffield Archives: MD2296-2339, MD3167-3169, MD3970-3972,
 Magazine, 1919 - 1966 and Works and Sports magazine,1920 - 1931 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
 Trade catalogues (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SSTQ)
 Trade card, c. 1890 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
 Strike Committee minute book, 1913 (Sheffield Archives: LD2385)
 Edgar Allen Steel Book, 1926 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SSTQ)
 Group profile, 1979 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 52 SQ)
 Edgar Allen & Co. Ltd., [1964] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 3 SQ)
 British steelworks No. 2 - Edgar Allen & Co., Ltd. 1935 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3952 M)
 Trackwork engineering trade catalogue, 1961 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 625.15 SST)
 Blueprints of tramtracks, 1905 - 1912 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP101-104 VL)
 Tramway track 1883 - 1923 or 40 years of Tramway Practice, Fred Bland, 1923 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 625.14 SST)
 Historical notes, taken from ‘Ironmaking and Steelmaking’, 1998, vol.25, pp. 347-349 1998 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3129
M)
 Edgar Allen, Balfour Limited annual reports, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals and newspapers)
 Edgar Allen Balfour Steels Ltd. 74 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Alloy Steel Rods Limited
Steel Rollers
Sheffield
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 Directors' Meeting Minutes, 1963 - 1970, monthly financial reports, 1963 - 1970, etc. (Sheffield Archives: X348)
Altmos Limited
 Liquidation account book, 1966 - 1976 (Sheffield Archives: MD7081)
Ancon Engineering Limited
Mary Street, Sheffield
 1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
J H Andrew and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Toledo Steel Works, Neepsend Lane, also at Effingham Road, Sheffield
 Records (Sheffield Archives: Aurora/56-81)
 Catalogue with notes on the treatment, forging and tempering of ‘Toledo’ tool steel, 19 th-20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672
SSTQ)
Andrews Toledo Limited and Andrews Toledo (Wire Rod) Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Toledo Steel Works, Neepsend Lane, Sheffield
 Minutes, directors attendance book, register of directors, reports, accounts, balance sheets, private ledger, deeds, 1783 - 1961
(Sheffield Archives: Aurora/56-81 and 490-496)
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Thomas Andrews and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Royds Works, Sheffield
 Memorandum and Articles of Association; share certificate stubs; ledgers; letter book; trade catalogues, deeds and accounts, other,
etc. 1899-1958 (Sheffield Archives: MD 7058-7067 and MD7980)
 Bank passbooks, correspondence re Hattersley & Co., Sheffield Forge, Rolling Mills, 20th cent. (Sheffield Archives: MD7345)
 Day book, 1946 - 1959 (Sheffield Archives: LD1950)
 Records (Sheffield Archives: MD8188)
 The Story of Thomas Andrews & Co. Ltd., 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 106)
 Sheffield Steel (trade catalogue), 1920s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SST)
 Thomas Andrews & Co Ltd. 6 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Appleby and Scholefield
Steel Manufacturers
Hope Iron Works, Furnace Hill and Gibraltar Street, Sheffield
 Title deeds regarding Hope Iron Works, Furnace Hill and Gibraltar Street, Sheffield, 1786 - 1884 (Sheffield Archives: MD3301-3335)
Appleby Frodingham Steel Company
Steel Manufacturers
Hope Iron Works, Furnace Hill and Gibraltar Street, Sheffield
 Ironmaking at the Appleby-Frodingham works of the United Steel Companies Limited, 1944 (Sheffield Reference Library: 669.1 Q)
 Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company: iron making centenary, 1865-1965 (Sheffield Reference Library: 338.47[6691] Q)
 Appleby-frodingham Steel Company: a branch of the United Steel Companies, Ltd., 1955 (Sheffield Reference Library: 338.47[6691]
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 A Technical survey of the iron and steel works of Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company, 1956 (Sheffield Reference Library: 669.1)
 A Hard look at steel. part 2, Appleby-Frodingham BOS, Scunthorpe [and] Ijmuiden no.2 BPF. Netherlands, 1990 (Sheffield Reference
Library: 338.47[6691] Q)
Argent Steel Limited
Alloy Steel Works, Matthew Street, Sheffield
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1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Armytage and Sons Limited
Steel railway material merchants and track installers
Derby House, Leadmill Road, Sheffield
 Day books, order books, ledgers and catalogues, c. 1920 - 1989 (Sheffield Archives: MD7784)
Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth and Company Limited
Shipbuilders, steel manufacturers, engineers, etc
Bank Street, Sheffield
 Private ledgers and journals, 1898 - 1929 (Sheffield Archives: MD8121)
John Arnold
Steam engine boiler maker
Edward Street, Sheffield
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 Covenant for workshops in Edward Street, Sheffield, 1856 (Sheffield Archives: CB/739)
Athena Stainless Steels Limited
Greasborough Road, Rotherham
 3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Austin McGillivray
Steel and file manufacturers
Falcon Steel and File Works, Arundel Street, Sheffield
Note: private notebooks, order books and other records, 1889-1974 are available at the Hawley Collection Trust (Sheffield (ref. AUS)
http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B34168
Austin and Dodson Limited
Steel refiners
Arundel Street, Sheffield
 Minute book, 1886 - 1949 (Sheffield Archives: SY224)
Avesta Sheffield
Stainless Steels
Shepcote Lane, Sheffield
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Cyclops Works 150 years, c. 1995 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Avesta Sheffield News, 1994 onwards (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SF)
Whenever it's a question of Stainless Steel [video], 1996 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: VID 26)
7 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Baker and Bessemer Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Rotherham
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Papers (Sheffield Archives: MD7257)
Papers regarding the amalgamation of John Baker and Co. and H Bessemer and Co., 1929 (Sheffield Archives: MD7006)
Baker, Henry, ‘The Steel Bakers of Rotherham, being a brief history of the Baker family and the business of John Baker and
Bessemer Ltd.’, 1960 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
Note: additional records are available at Rotherham Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library (various refs.) and also Kelham Island
Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNJB) http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnj&cid=0#0 (accessed
January 2011)
Arthur Balfour and Company (subsequently Balfour Darwins)
Steelmakers
Capital Steelworks, Sheffield
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 Company minutes 1899-1936, agendas of meetings 1955-1966; financial records; analysis of steel production 1920-1951; daybooks of
sales relating to the firm's home and worldwide trade 1869-1948; records of Arthur Balfour's subsidiary companies trading in France,
Canada, Australia, S. America, U.S.A., Spain, Germany (Sheffield Archives: BDR)
 Cash book, 1935-1958; register of female employees, c 1916-1949 (Sheffield Archives: MD8068)
 Trade catalogue (in Spanish) c. 1920 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC BALF)
 Steadfast Quality Tools, catalogue, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC BALF)
 Reports and accounts, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: Journals)
 Hacksaws trade catalogue, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC BALF)
 Centenary 1865 - 1965 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Arthur Balfour & Co Ltd. 7 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
 Balfour Darwins Ltd. 13 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Barker and England Limited
Merchants and Manufacturers of Machine Knives
Havelock Works, Moorfields, Sheffield
 Machine knives for all purposes, 1965 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC BARK)
Barmond International Limited
Kiveton Park, Sheffield
 1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
William Beardmore and Company Limited
Shipbuilders and Engineers
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
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 Directors minutes and reports, 1957 - 1982, annual accounts and reports, 1956 - 1966, promotional and other material, 1957 - 1982
(Sheffield Archives: X341)
J Beardshaw and Son Limited
Rollers & Tilters and Steel Manufacturers
Baltic Steel Works, Effingham Road, Sheffield
 Minutes; memorandum and articles of association; registers of members; share certificates and counterfoils; salaries account book;
dividend account books; cash books; documents relating to the liquidation of the Beardshaw Group 1970-1976 (Sheffield Archives:
MD7081)
 Bills, invoices, correspondence, bills of exchange, catalogues and price lists, 1905 - 1977 (Sheffield Archives: X93)
 Order and invoice book, 1823 - 1831 (Sheffield Archives: LD1714)
 Order book, 1823 - 1825 (photocopy) (Sheffield Archives: LD1715)
 Bill book, 1855 - 1911 (Sheffield Archives: MD6324)
 Price list, no date (Sheffield Archives: SY366)
 Trade card, c. 1890 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
 The Baltic Steelworks Gazette, 1919 - 1913 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.745 Q)
 Dairy of events from 1719 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SST)
 3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Beatson Brothers and Company Limited
Non ferrous alloy manufacturers
Continental Works, Milton Street, Sheffield
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 Cash book, day book, General ledger and account book 1945 - 1949 (Sheffield Archives: MD6770-6772)
 Directors’ reports and accounts 1954 - 1962; cash, order and day books etc., 1940s - 1970s (Sheffield Archives: SY83)
Alfred Beckett and Sons
Toolmakers
Brooklyn Works, Green Lane, Sheffield
Note: Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1931 and other records are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield)
(ref. MNBA) http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnba&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011)
John Bedford and Sons Limited
Manufacturer of crucible steel, etc.
The Lion Works, Mowbray Street and Ball Street, Sheffield
 Directors’ minutes; register of members, dividend registers, letter book, department account book, private journal, 1871 - 1933
(Sheffield Archives: MD7352)
 Notes, correspondence and orders, 1960 - 1976 (Sheffield Archives: MD7047)
 Ephemera (Sheffield Archives: MD8080)
 150th anniversary 1792 - 1844 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Catalogues, 1885, 1930s, 1949 and 1960s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SQ and TRC BEDF)
 Bedford colour chart for forging and hardening drill rods and pneumatic tools, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1009 M)
 Sports club papers and minutes 1940s, agents' correspondence 1950s (Sheffield Archives: MD7345)
 9 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Billet Grinding Company Limited
Steel Grinders
Farm Road, Sheffield
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 Private ledger, 1946 - 1971 (Sheffield Archives: MD7779)
The Blaenavon Company Limited
Iron and Steel Merchant
Blaenavon, Monmouthshire
 Directors minute books, 1948 - 1957; registers of directors, 1934 - 1954; weekly trading statements, 1953 - 1958, etc. (Sheffield
Archives: TW)
Henry Bessemer and Company Limited
Manufacturers of steels forgings and castings, etc.
Bessemer Steelworks, Carlisle Street East, Sheffield
 Letter to Henry Bessemer concerning press allegations that he is “completely knocked out of the market”, 1868 (Sheffield Archives:
MD1199)
 Papers regarding the takeover of the firm, c. 1929 (Sheffield Archives: MD7006)
 Closing of the steelworks in 1929 (Sheffield Archives: MD7257)
 Wolf, Mandred, ‘Henry Bessemer and continuous casting’, extract from Steel World, vol. 4, no. 1, 1999 (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: MP 5212 M)
 Bodsworth, Colin, ‘Sir Henry Bessemer: father of the steel industry’ (IOM Communications, 1998) (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
669.1 S)
 Lodge, Trevor, ‘Henry Bessemer: Sheffield's radical steelmaker’ in Aspects of Sheffield: discovering local history 2 / edited by Melvyn
Jones) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 942.74 S)
 Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: an autobiography; with a concluding chapter, (Institute of Metals, 1989 (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
B. BESS)
 Smiles, Robert, ‘Eminent manufacturers II: Henry Bessemer’ in Great Industries of Great Britain’ c. 1880 (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
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 In memory of a great inventor [Sir Henry Bessemer], taken from "Materials World", May 1998 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP
5213 M)
J. R. Bramah and Company Limited
Aircraft, Motor and General Sheet Metal Workers
Sheffield
 Trade catalogues, costings books, accounts, wage books, Second World War official messages from Air Ministry, etc.), c. 1903 - c.
1975 (Sheffield Archives: X440)
Henry Bramall and Sons
File, Nail and Steel Manufacturers
Birtin Works, Henry Street, Sheffield
Note: Some records are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNHB) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnhb&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
Joseph Bramall and Sons (later Henry Bramall and Sons)
Makers of files, nails, etc.
Oughtibridge (Ecclesfield) later of Henry Street, Sheffield
 Price lists, orders and correspondence, pay books, receipts 1856 - 1932 (Sheffield Archives: Bram)
 Price lists (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP388 L)
W. Brealey and Company Limited
Wharf Road, Kilnhurst, Near Rotherham
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 2 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
F. J. Brindley and Sons
Central Hammer Works, Poole Road, Darnall, Sheffield
 2 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
British Rollmakers Corporation Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Crewe, Cheshire
 Finance Committee, 1974 - 1976, shareholder records, 1943 - 1965, correspondence and other papers, 1947 - 1980 (Sheffield
Archives: X335)
British Steel Corporation (BSC)
Steel Manufacturers
Various locations
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Iron and steel specifications, 1974 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.961 SST)
British Steelmaker [journal], 1935 - 1983 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SQ)
Steel News, 1995 onwards (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SF)
A guided tour of the River Don Works, 1975 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 4975 M)
Making Steel, [1980s] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SQ)
The New organisation of the Corporation, [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 27 no. 8 (042 S))
Sheffield (later Swindon) Laboratories News, 1981 - 1986 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 607.2 S)
BSC (Chemicals) Ltd., newsletter, 1982 - 1983 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 668.75 SQ)
BSC Midland Group Steel News, 1968 - 1970 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
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BSC Midland Group, Rotherham Division Steel News, 1969 - 1970 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
BSC Midland Group, Sheffield Division Steel News, 1976 - 1979 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
BSC Special Steels Division, Steel News, 1970 - 1976 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
BSC Special Steels Division, Stainless (newsletter), 1977 - 1984 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
BSC Special Steel Products and Stainless Steel Division, Special Steel review, 1969 - 1980 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74
SQ)
BSC Ltd., [Tinsley Park Works]: Europe’s most modern alloy steel plant, [?1967] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
Films showing drop forging, 1940s - 1950s (Sheffield Archives: SY724)
Agreement with Thos Firth and John Brown Limited on rationalisation of Sheffield steel interests, 1972 (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
MP 3119 M)
Steel foundry rationalisation and development: a paper for joint consultation, 1973 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 634)
Ministerial statement on Steel Monday, [and joint press statement from British Steel Corporation and Thomas Firth and John Brown
Ltd.], 28 June 1971 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3102 M)
Press notices issued by the Department of Trade and Industry announcing the privatisation of the British Steel Corporation, 1988
(Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3124 M)
Making steel, 1990 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SQ)
Stocksbridge Spring Works Centenary 1880-1980: BSC Light Products (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3909 M)
Forge ahead and prove River Don Works newsletters, 1972 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3128 M)
River Don Works - shaping up for the future, 1973 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3120 M)
Swinden Laboratories, c. 1971 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Silver Fox stainless steels: yours forever, 1970 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC BRIT)
Britain's first two level motorway viaduct: design in steel, 1968 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 124 SQ)
British Steel Castings Research Association annual report, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
British Steel Corporation. Billet, Bar & Rod Products 4 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
British Steel Corporation. Forges, foundries & engineering 3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
British Steel Corporation. Light products. 2 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
British Steel Corporation. River Don Works. 1 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
British Steel Corporation. Reinforcement Steel Services. 5 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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 British Steel Corporation. Special Steels Division. 8 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: A search of the Sheffield Reference Library catalogue will reveal over 350 items relating to British Steel http:
//library.sheffield.gov.uk/uhtbin/webcat (accessed January 2011).
British Steel Stainless
Steel Manufacturers
Shepcote Lane, Sheffield
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BSC Stainless: Shepcote Lane visitors’ guide, c.1984 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 042 S)
British Steel Stainless (BSS): Precise Performance, 1991 - 1993 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SF)
British Steel Stainless (BSS): Reflecting the Future, [1980s] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
British Steel Stainless (BSS): 75 years of stainless steel, 1913 - 1988 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SQ)
The official opening of the Trade Centre, 1992 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 159 SQ)
The Stainless Chronicle anniversary issues, 1988 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1351(A) L)
The inaugural Harry Brearley memorial conference, 1988 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 4119 S)
75 years of stainless steel, 1913-1988 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SQ)
Stainless technology [a technical newsheet from BSC Stainless], 1987 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3123 M)
Beesley, Ian, Shining out : reflecting the history of stainless steel rolling at Shepcote Lane 1948-2006 (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
338.4 SQ)
S. S. Brittain and Company
Tool Manufacturers
St George’s Works, Shoreham Street, Sheffield
 Letters, leases, invoices, catalogues etc., [20th cent] (Sheffield Archives: MD1484, LD314, LD266, MARSH)
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John Brown and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Atlas Steel and Iron Works, Savile Street East and Carlisle Street East, Sheffield
 Records relating to corporate and management, legal, financial, employment, production and sales, plant and property, promotional
material, research, overseas company, trade association, 1864 - 1980 (Sheffield Archives: X308)
 Annual reports and accounts, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
 Timekeeper's book, 1920 - 1928 (Sheffield Archives: MD8240)
 Engineering drawings, 1887 (Sheffield Archives: MD6784)
 Catalogues 1903; general description of works, 1924 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S, 669.1 SSTQ and 672 SST)
 ‘Steel and Ships: a history of John Browns (Sir A J Grant, 1950) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
 Timekeeper’s book, 1921 - 1926 (Sheffield Archives: MD7316)
 Letters from America, 1853 - 1860 (ed) T Barry Davies, 1991 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 973.6 SST)
 John Brown and the Sheffield Armour Plate [song] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 786 M)
 Clogs to clogs (Sir Eric Mensforth, 1991) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: B Mens SQ)
 A General Description of the Works and Products of John Brown & Company Ltd., 1864 - 1924 (Sheffield Archives: BRO/BUS)
 The Quadruple-screw, turbine driven Cunard liner "Aquitania"; constructed and engineered by Messrs. John Brown and Co. Ltd.,
Sheffield and Clydebank, 1914 (Sheffield Reference Library: 623.823 F)
 Davies, T Barry (ed), J. S. Webb [company agent] Letters from America, 1853 - 1860 (Self Publishing Association, 1991) (Sheffield
Local Studies Library: 973.6 SST)
Note: Contract 1859; secretary's note book 1864-1866; papers about shares and capital 1864-1964; manager's duties 1868; furnace
report book 1900-1916; discount and profit book; correspondence; etc., 1864 - 1968 are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum
(Sheffield) (ref. MNBJ and MNJB) http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnbj&cid=0#0 (accessed January
2011).
Minutes, ledgers, private journals and cash books, journals, deeds, legal papers, correspondence, staff pension book, etc. 1864-20th
cent are still held in private hands (contact National Archives, Archives Sector Development (ref. BAC Company Archives 1986, no 50)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B9490 (accessed January 2011).
John Brown and Company Limited (Clydebank)
Ship Builders
Clydebank, Scotland
 Legal, financial, employment and production records, 1886 - 1949 (Sheffield Archives: X312)
Brown Bayleys Steels Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Leeds Road, Sheffield
 Directors minutes, 1888 - 1951, annual general meeting minutes, 1951 - 1973; balance sheets, 1895 - 1917, etc. (Sheffield Archives:
HAD)
 Company magazines, 1924 - 1936, 1968 - 1974 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 S and 052.74 SQ)
 Centenary Brochure, 1871 - 1971 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SF)
 Brown Bayleys: a story of development, [1966] 1971 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S and PAMP 37 SQ; Sheffield Archives:
BRO/BUS)
 [Various photos and articles about the 450 ft. stainless steel chain manufactured by Brown Bayley Steel Works to support the dome of
St. Paul's Cathedral, London] [c. 1928] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1998 M)
 Annual report and accounts , 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
 Steel for all purposes, 1934 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
 Extract from ‘The Implement and Machinery Review, Mar 1883 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3948 M)
 Into the Next Hundred Years, [1971] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 36 SQ)
 Coloured illustrations of various processes, no date (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTF)
 Extract from Ironmaking and Steelmaking, vol. 24, no. 1, 1997 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 5119 M)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Brymbo Steel Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Brymbo, Wrexham, Denbighshire
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1940, minutes, 1940 - 1944, annual report and accounts, 1940 (Sheffield Archives: X332)
Note: The main collection of records of this firm are available at Flintshire Record Office (D/BS) see http:
//www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?coll_id=2180&inst_id=28&term=brymbo (accessed Oct 2010)
Burys and Company Limited
Manufacturers of high speed steels etc.
Regent Works, Penistone Road, Sheffield
 Board minutes, 1880 - 1891, 1922 - 1959; memoranda and articles of association 1865, 1890, trading and profit and loss accounts,
1914 - 1947, agency agreements, 1919 - 1945, valuations and sales particulars etc, c. 1870 - 1895, other (Sheffield Archives: Aurora
III)
 Information regarding steels, no date (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SST)
William and Samuel Butcher
Steel Convertor and Refiners
Philadelphia Works, Eyre Street
 Circular letter stating the … discounts and terms of William and Samuel Butcher, 1871 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 339 S)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Butters Group of Companies
 Memorandum and articles of association, 1939 and 1963; Board of Directors minute and reports 1964 - 1975; annual reports and
accounts, 1964 - 1970, etc. (Sheffield Archives: TW)
Cammell Laird and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers and Shipbuilders
Grimesthorpe, Sheffield and Birkenhead, Cheshire
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Salaries journals, staff lists, registers of deeds, deeds, finance and legal papers, 19th - 20th cent (Sheffield Archives: MD8121)
Deeds to properties, 18th - 19th centuries (Sheffield Archives: WED/306-315)
Catalogue / brochure, c. 1911 and 1919 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ and 338.4 SQ)
Visit of the members of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers (London) to the Grimesthorpe Steel Ordnance and Spring Works,
Sheffield, 1919 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
Brochure of visit of George V, 1918 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP2601M and Sheffield Archives: SY529)
Brochure of visit of George V, 1919 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 180 no. 16 (042 S))
Warren, Kenneth, ‘Steel, ships and men: Cammell Laird, 1824-1993’ (Liverpool University Press, 1998) (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: 338.4 S; also available in Central Lending Library: 338.76238)
File catalogue, 1915 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SQ)
British Empire Exhibition, 1924 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
The Engineer - Penistone Works, 1923 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTF)
Note: Records of this firm are available at a variety of repositories, including Wirral Archives, Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
(Birkenhead), National Museums Liverpool: Maritime Archives and Library, Tyne and Wear Archives and Kelham Island Industrial
Museum (Sheffield) and Cumbria Record Office and Sheffield Local Studies Library (Whitehaven). See http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B6135&tabType=ARCHIVE (accessed January 2011).
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Charles Cammell and Company Limited
Merchants and Manufacturers of Armour Plates, tilters and forgers, etc.
Cyclops Steel and Iron Works, Savile Street, Sheffield
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Deeds, etc., 18th – 19th cent. (Sheffield Archives: WED/312-315)
Plan of Cyclops works, 1860s (Sheffield Archives: X306/6/4/1)
Views of various premises c. 1895; sketch of armour plates for HMS Agamemnon, 1878 (Sheffield Archives: LD1965, MD692)
Description of Cyclops Works, c. 1900 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SF)
Report and balance sheet, 1875 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 33 no. 20 (042 S))
Price lists, 19th - 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ and 672 SQ)
Trade card, c. 1890 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
Illustrated list of files, tools, etc., 1865 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SQ)
The rolling of an armour plate fro HMS Ocean, 1897 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SST)
Cyclops Works 150 years, c. 1995 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Kosugi, [Tatsuzo], Report on Cammell’s bullet-proof steel, 1896 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SST)
Note: Papers, mainly relating to armour plate testing, 1881 - 1905 are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum, Sheffield (ref.
MNCC).See http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mncc&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
Carbrook Forge and Bessemer Steel Company
Manufacturers of Steel Forgings, etc.
Carbrook Forge and Rolling Mills
 Partnership deed, 1877 (Sheffield Archives: MD6370)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
C G Carlisle and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Iona Steel Works, Penistone Road, Sheffield
 Finance papers 1921-1941; staff salaries 1941-1964; staff lists; price determination reports 1955-1962; financial records 1920-1970
(Sheffield Archives: MD7411)
J. and Riley Carr Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Bailey Lane Works, Sheffield
 Agreements with individual workmen, travellers and agents (including American) 1858 - 1865; cost book for-saws c.1912 - 1915; sales
ledgers, 1915 - 1950s (Sheffield Archives: MD 4050-4054)
Richard W. Carr and Company
Steel Manufacturers
Pluto Works, Penistone Road North, Sheffield
 Catalogues, 1940 - 1952 (microfilm); photographs (copies) (Sheffield Archives: SY113, SY697, X113)
 7 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
James Chesterman and Company (later Rabone Chesterman Limited)
Makers of patent measuring tapes, steel rules, crinoline steel
Bow Works, Pomona Street, Sheffield
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Catalogues and price lists 1849-1921; articles of partnership of Samuel Fox and William Chesterman 1868 (copy) (Sheffield Archives:
LD1124-1125)
 Catalogues 1933, 1949 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 681.2 SSTQ)
 The First 200 years: a short history of Rabone Chesterman Ltd., (D J Hallam, 1984) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
 Catalogue, [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC CHES)
Note: Records are available at the Hawley Collection Trust, 1847 - 1989, are available at the Hawley Collection Trust (Sheffield) (ref.
RAB) http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2746-rab&cid=0#0 (accessed October 2010); Records, 1817 - 1974 are
also available at Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service (ref. MS1522)
George Clark (Sheffield) Limited
Warren Street, Sheffield
 4 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Clay Wheels Rolling Mills Limited
Steel Rollers
Clay Wheels Lane, Wadsley Bridge
 Board minutes, 1914 - 1952; register of members, 1914 - 1969; annual returns, 1923 - 1953; ledgers, 1914 - 1968 (Sheffield Archives:
HAD)
Clayton and Shuttleworth Limited
Engineers
Stamp End Works, Lincoln
 Articles of Association, directors’ minutes, share certificates, etc., 1918 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: TW/204-212)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Cobalt Magnet Steel Company
 Records, [20th cent] (Sheffield Archives: Aurora/185)
Cocker Brothers
Wire Drawers and Steel Manufacturers
Effingham Road, Sheffield
 Legal, financial, employment and production records, 1875 - 1972 (Sheffield Archives: X310)
 Articles of Partnership, 1855 (Sheffield Archives: WD/539)
William Cook and Sons (Sheffield) Limited
Washford Road, Sheffield
 2 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
William Cooke and Sons
Glasgow Steel and File Works
Tinsley Steel, Iron and Wire Rope Works, Attercliffe, Sheffield
 Trade cards, c. 1890 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
George H. Cook and Company Limited
Tool steel manufacturers
Uniformity Steel Works, Bailey Street, Sheffield
 Nominal ledgers and cash book, 1943 - 1971 (Sheffield Archives: MD7779)
 13 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
George Cooper and Sons
Bolts, nuts, screws, special steels
Effingham Nut and Bolt Works, Tinsley, Sheffield
 Partnership deed, 1884 (Sheffield Archives: MD6377)
 Annual accounts and directors’ reports, 1964 - 1970 (Sheffield Archives: TW/215)
 Fan catalogue, 1896 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP1020S)
William Cornthwaite and Sons
London Steel Works
Denby Street, Sheffield
 Sales and Purchase ledger, 1902 - 1959 (Sheffield Archives: LD1945)
Corus plc
 Corus: the new voice in metal, 1999 (Sheffield Central Library Store: 338.76691 Q)
 Stocksbridge Works: draft development brief (Corus Engineering Steels, 2004 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 711.552 SSTQ and
711.552 SSTQ APPENDICES)
 Corus News (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
 Price lists, 1990s (Sheffield Reference Library: 338.476691 Q)
 Structural hollow sections: technical literature, 1999 (Sheffield Reference Library: 624.1772)
 Corus Engineering Steels. 1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Coventry Ordnance Works Limited
Ordnance Manufacturers
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Coventry, Warwickshire
 Records relating to corporate and management, legal, finance, plant and property and production and sales, 1905 - 1919 (Sheffield
Archives: X313)
Cravens Limited (later Craven Homalloy Limited)
Railway Carriage and Wagon Builders
Staniforth Road, Sheffield
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Reports for meetings of Board of Directors, 1957-1959 (Sheffield Archives: LD2532)
Illustrated book with photographs of interior of works and products, with specifications. c. 1950 (Sheffield Archives: MD7655)
Brochure, 1957 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SF)
Some recent productions – rolling stock, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1056 L)
John Crowley and Company
Iron Founders
Kelham Iron Works, Kelham Island, Alma Street and Meadowhall, Sheffield
 Improved patent carburetted malleable cast iron flanges and ruffles, 19 th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1732 M)
 Leaflet regarding products, 1880 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1381 S)
Crusteel Limited
Rutland Way, Sheffield
 24 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
CTW (Hardfacing) Limited
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Quality Works, Mowbray Street, Sheffield
 1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Darlington Railway Plant and Foundry Company Limited
Railway Engineers
Darlington, County Durham
 Directors’ minutes, general meeting minutes, dividend book, Lists of shareholders, etc, c. 1903 - 1948 (Sheffield Archives: TW/126248)
Darwins Limited / Darwins Group
Tools and file merchant and steel manufacturer
Carlisle Street, later Rockingham Street and Fitzwilliam Works, Sheffield Road, Tinsley
 Directors minutes, 1929 - 1977, financial records 1946 - 1972, Iron and Steel Board returns 1957 - 1962, title deeds, 1781 - 1957, etc.
(Sheffield Archives: Aurora)
 Annual report, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: Journals)
 Tool Steels catalogue, [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.961 SST)
 Brochures, 1930s - 1940s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 7 nos. 5, 6, 7 and 13 and vol. 17 nos. 6 & 13 (042 SQ))
 Darwins Magnets, 1920s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 538 SST)
 12 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Darwins Bright Steels
Steel Manufacturers
Fitzwilliam Works, Sheffield
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Accounts and working papers, 1957, etc. (Sheffield Archives: Aurora)
Darwins Toledo Overseas Limited
Sheffield
 Records, 20th cent (Sheffield Archives: Aurora/167-177)
Daniel Doncaster and Sons
Steel Forgers
Penistone Road and Hoyle Street, Sheffield
 Ledger, daybook, cash books, passbooks , 1829-1856; petty cash ledgers, 1844-1900; letter book, 1869-1871 (note: these mainly
refer to the company’s earlier cutlery manufacture) (Sheffield Archives: Donc, SY723 and LD368-378)
 Forging Ahead (magazine), 1919 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 132 no. 12 (042 SQ))
 Daniel Doncaster & Sons Ltd., 1778 - 1928 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
 Daniel Doncaster & Sons Ltd., 1778 - 1938: the story of four generations (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Daniel Doncaster & Sons Ltd., 1778 - 1978, MHJ Lord, 1978 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Film showing making of crucible pots, 1950s (Sheffield Archives: SY723)
 The Daniel Doncaster Companies, 1964 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Bicentenary Year Review 1978 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 757 L)
 Masters of Shape, 1973 - 1981 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
 Forge Products Division photograph album, c. 1973 (Sheffield Archives: MD7835)
Note: Customer ledger 1805-1890; ledgers 1881-1923; steel melting order books; papers relating to Swedish iron and Swedish iron
contracts; production cost and yield books 1944; cost calculations; test reports; price list for forging; stock lists; company welfare books
1922-1927; pamphlets; plans advertising literature; photographs are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref.
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
MMND). http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mndd&cid=0#0 (accessed October 2010).
The Davis Steel Wheel Company Limited
Steel Wheel Manufacturers
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1924, legal and other records, 1920 - 1914 (Sheffield Archives: X321)
Davy Brothers Limited
Engineers, boiler, steam-hammer and hydraulic press makers
Park Ironworks, Foley Street, Sheffield
 Engineers' drawings for machinery at Hickleton Main Colliery [20th cent]; Davy Brothers' engineering drawings for mill engines,
Workington Iron and Steel Mill 1943-1969 (Sheffield Archives: LD2532)
 Enserch Corporation and Davy Corporation Limited - Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on the proposed merger (HMSO,
1981) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.83 SSTQ)
 150 years of achievement, 1830 - 1980 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 910 L and Calendar 56)
 Case studies, 1977-1977, 1986 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 382.6 SST, Local pamphlets vol. 57 and 338.47629222 SSTQ)
 Davy-Loewy Ltd., international engineers and manufacturers for the metals industries, 1976 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4
SSTQ)
 Promotional material of Davy-Loewy and successors, 1980s - 1990 (Sheffield Archives: MD7654)
 Davy Corporation companies, 1980s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
 Davy-United Engineering Company 'Anvil' in-house magazines, 20th cent (Sheffield Archives: MD7524 and MD7663 and 052.74)
 Photograph albums, Anvil magazine, catalogues, etc., c. 1915 - 1990 (Sheffield Archives: BUS)
 Davy high speed forging presses and other brochures, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 671.33 SSTQ and 672.33 SST)
 The Record of Davy Brothers Ltd. in World War One, 1914 – 1918 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338. 4 SQ)
 Catalogues c. 1919 – 1920 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
Note: Pamphlets, 1910 - 1975 of this firm are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNDB) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mndb&cid=0#0. A detailed inventory of plant and machine tools is available
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
at the Hawley Collection trust (Sheffield) (ref. DAV). http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2746-dav&cid=0#0
(accessed October 2010).
Davy Roll Company Limited
Stevenson Road, Sheffield
 4 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Davy and United Engineering Company Limited
Engineers
Darnall Works, Prince of Wales Road, Sheffield
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Built by Davy-United, 1960s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Papers, plans, catalogues & printed material, 1940s - 1950s (Sheffield Archives: MD7553)
A tour of the Park iron Works and Darnall Works, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 200 no. 2 (042 SQ))
Engineering for the metals and sugar industries, 1954 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 10 no. 1) (042 SQ))
A periodic survey of engineering for the metals industries, 1954 – 1960 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 620.163 SQ)
Engineering for the Metals industries, c. 1967 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 671.3 SSTQ)
Davy International. 3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
The Denby Iron and Coal Company Limited
Iron Merchants
Denby Road, Derby
 Copy annual returns to the Registrar of Companies, 1897 - 1900 (Sheffield Archives: TW/257)
Derbyshire Mineral Mines Limited (formerly Sprotbrough Castings Limited)
Iron Castings Manufacturer
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Sprotborough, South Yorkshire
 Directors minutes, 1964 - 1981, Registers of members, 1934-1981, annual returns 1951 - 1981, etc (Sheffield Archives: TW/258-265)
Derwent Rolling Mills
Rolling Mills
Barepot, Workington, Cumberland
 Catalogue, 1907 (Sheffield Archives: BUS1)
Doncasters Sheffield Limited
Penistone Road, Sheffield
 12 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Dormer Tools Limited (formerly Sheffield Twist Drill and Steel Company Limited)
Engineering Tool Manufacturers
Sheffield
 Photographs, etc, 20th cent (Sheffield Archives: X430)
 Catalogues, 1930a - 1970s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 621.95 SST / SSTQ)
Drabble and Sanderson Limited
Saw Manufacturers
Elect Works, Savile Street East, Sheffield
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Handbook, 1925 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 674.22 ST)
 Saws, tools and sharpening shop equipment, catalogue, 1916 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SSTQ)
 Sawmill magazine, 1925 - 1936 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
Drury Brothers and Walker
Tool and Screw Manufacturers
Don Tool Works, Mowbray Street, Sheffield
 Balance sheets, 1862 - 1864 (Sheffield Archives: MD6511)
Dunford and Elliott (Sheffield) Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Chippingham Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield
 Minutes, private ledgers, etc, 1902 - 1970s (Sheffield Archives: HAD)
 Annual reports and accounts, 1964 - 1978; forward planning, etc. (Sheffield Archives: HAD/box 37)
 Annual reports and accounts, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: Journals)
Dunford Hadfields Limited
Steel Manufacturers
East Hecla Works, Vulcan Road, Sheffield
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
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Minutes, 1968 - 1978 (Sheffield Archives: HAD)
A World of Alloy Steels, 1960s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SF)
Dunford Hadfields' new semi-continuous bar mill, 1972 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3139 M)
Works rules and procedures: discussion draft, 1975 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 658.312 SSTQ)
Pace / Pace News (company magazine), 1969 – 1978 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
Dunford Hadfields. 10 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Henry Eadon and Company
Steel Tilters and Forgers
Highbridge Forge, Sheffield
 Forge castings book, 1885 - 1891 (Sheffield Archives: LD2231)
Earl, Smith and Company
Steel Founders and File Manufacturers
Rockingham Street, later Albion Iron and Steel Works, Bardwell Road, Sheffield
 Deeds regarding co-partnership, 1848 - 1976 (Sheffield Archives: BUS1)
Eclipse Magnetics
Vulcan Road, Sheffield
 5 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Effingham Steel Works Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Windsor Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Plans of premises, 1939 - 1955 (Sheffield Archives: X252)
G. M. Elder (Special Steels) Limited
Brightside Lane, Sheffield
 1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
T. R. Ellins Limited
Tool Manufacturers
Footprint Works, Hollis Croft
 Opening ceremony programme, 1900 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 409 M)
 Brand Tools catalogue, 1937 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 ST and Sheffield Archives: MD7761)
English Steel Corporation Limited
Steel Manufacturers and Engineers
Vickers Works, Sheffield
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Accounting records with some minutes, reports and title deeds, 1929 - 1960s (Sheffield Archives: MD8121)
Reports and accounts, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
Small Tools catalogue, 1938 (Sheffield Reference Library: 621.9)
House magazines ESC News / review 1947-1968 (incomplete); photographs (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ and Sheffield
Archives: BUS3, X14)
Papers relating to bid to avoid nationalisation in 1964 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1342 M)
Information Bulletin, 1963 - 1968 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SF)
ESC and Its Products, 1938 and 1956 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 172 no. 3 and vol. 260 no. 4 (042 SQ))
ESC Forgings, [1958 and 1967] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672.332 SQ and SSTQ)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
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Summary of standard Steel, 1938 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SSTQ)
Tool steels catalogue, 1938 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SST)
Steel specifications, 1967 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.961 SST)
Directory of representatives, agents, sub agents and stockists at home and overseas, 1948 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 658.8103
SST)
Tinsley Works opening brochure, 1963 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1897 M)
Historical details, 1959 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1517 M)
English Steel Forgings, c. 1954 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672.332 SSTQ)
Royal visit to the River Don Works brochure, 1954 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SF)
My Career (apprenticeship scheme), 1948 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 43 SQ)
River Dons Works, [1920s] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3171 M)
English Steel Corporation 72 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: Minutes, registers and photographs, etc., 1889-1972 are at the Tata Steel UK Limited Shotton Records Centre (Deeside);
corporate and share records, 1929-70 are at the Corus Northern Regional Records Centre (Middlesbrough) and reports, etc., 1928-1967
are at Cambridge University Library Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B10405 (accessed October 2010).
English Steel Forge and Engineering Corporation Limited
 ESC Forgings, 1958 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672.332 SQ)
English Steel Rolling Mills Corporation Limited
 Tinsley Park Works - Europe’s most modern alloy steel plant, brochures, [1960s] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ and
SSTQ)
 Tool steels, c. 1960s? (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.961 SST)
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Erasteel (UK) Limited
371 Coleford Road, Darnall, Sheffield
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3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
James Fairley and Sons
Canklow Meadows Industrial Estate, West Bawtry Road, Rotherham
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13 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
A. Fieldsend and Company
Steel Refiners
Sussex Works, Sussex Street, Sheffield
 Partnership deed, 1866 (Sheffield Archives: MD6357)
 Annual accounts, 1916 - 1933 (Sheffield Archives: TW/284)
Thomas Firth and John Brown Investments Limited
Investment Company
Atlas Works, Savile Street East, Sheffield
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1963, Directors' Meeting Papers, 1964 - 1967, General Correspondence, 1965 - 1971,
Annual Reports and Accounts, 1964 - 1969 (Sheffield Archives: X349)
Thomas Firth and Sons Limited
Steel Castings Manufacturers
Norfolk Works, Savile Street East and Effingham Road, Sheffield (also at Claywheel, Wadsley Bridge)
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Monthly reports, 1906 - 1931 (Sheffield Archives: X308/1/2/1/4)
Company magazines, 'The Bombshell', 1917 - 1932 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
Company magazines, 'The Bombshell', 1921 and 1926 (Sheffield Archives: SY158)
The Development of Stainless Steel, 1922 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SST)
The Development of Staybrite Steel, 1920s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SST)
A History of a Great Steel Manufacturing Firm, 1928 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 86 no. 2 (042 S))
The History of Firths, 1842 - 1918, A C Marshall, 1924 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
Rules for the sick and funeral club, 1856 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 107 no. 11 (042 S))
Souvenir of presentation to James Rossiter Hoyle, joint Managing Director, 1906 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 2907 L)
Souvenir of presentation to Mr & Mrs Lewis, 1899 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 2903 S)
Steels Specially Resistant to Corrosion, 1934 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 669.1 SST)
Education and training, the key to business success?, 1996 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3483 M)
Preference Dividend bank book, 1908 - 1913 (Sheffield Archives: MD7571)
The Development of "Staybrite" Steel: its Properties and Uses: Being A Textbook of Data 1925 (Sheffield Reference Library:
669.142[09])
One hundred years in steel (Thomas Firth & Sons, 1938) (Sheffield Central Library Store: 338.4)
The Development of stainless steel: its properties and uses: being a textbook of data collected from investigations in the research
laboratories and in the works of Thos. Firth and Sons Ltd., Sheffield, 1922 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SST)
Thomas Firth & Sons Ltd., Norfolk Works Sheffield, 1906 (Sheffield Reference Library: 338.47[6691])
Eason, mark Education and training, the key to business success? Human resource development at Thomas. Firth & Sons Ltd., c.
1880-1940 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3483 M)
Note: papers, 1851 - 1937 are available at Kelham island industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNTF). http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mntf&cid=0#0 (accessed October 2010).
Thomas Firth and Sons (Birmingham) Limited
Steel Manufacturers
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Birmingham, Warwickshire
 Minutes, liquidation and other papers, 1935 - 1936 (Sheffield Archives: X328)
Firth-Brearley Stainless Steel Syndicate
Stainless Steel Licensors
Sheffield
 Minute books, shareholding records, correspondence, etc. 1916 - 1952 (Sheffield Archives: X318)
Firth Brown Limited
Engineers in Heavy Duty Steels
Atlas Words, Savile Street East, Sheffield
 Records relating to corporate and management, legal, financial, employment, production and sales, plant and property, promotional
material, research, overseas company, Trade Association, 1960 - 1982 (Sheffield Archives: X307)
 Brochure of the Atlas and Norfolk Works, 1939; ‘Forging Steel’, film 1939; photographs, 1939 (Sheffield Archives: SY655, SY393, X14)
 Thomas Firth and John Brown Ltd., 1997 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 5121 M)
 Firth Brown News, 1957 - 1978 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S and SQ)
 Reports and accounts [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: Journals)
 Catalogue of alloy, tool and die steel, 1964 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 18 no. 13 (042 S))
 Welcome to the works of Thos. Firth & John Brown Ltd., 1953 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 82 and 479)
 Forged Steel Rolls, 1961 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 671.32 SSTQ)
 Glossaries of metallurgical Terms, 1953, 1957, 1965, 1970s and 1985 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 S and 669.1 SST and
Sheffield Reference library: 669.03)
 Modern Projectile Factories, Norfolk Works, 1912 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 623.4513 SSTQ)
 100 Years in Steel, 1937 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ; also available in Sheffield Reference Library Store 338.4)
 Welcome to the Works of Firth Brown, 1957 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 216 no. 8 (042 S))
 Brown Firth Research Laboratories, 1937 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: S42.1 SQ)
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 The Brown-Firth Research laboratories, serving Firth Brown, Firth-Vickers, Firth-Derihon, Wm. Beardmore, 1960s (Sheffield Reference
Library: 669.142072 Q)
 Hamilton, Catherine, Firth Brown: a Sheffield steel company (Tempus, 2000) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
 The Thos. Firth and John Brown Group of companies, (Firth Brown c. 1973) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 199 SQ)
 Steel specifications, 1971 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.961 SST)
 Speedicut Engineers' Cutting Tools Digest, 1968 (Sheffield Reference Library: 621.93)
 Firth Brown: [a general description of the company's historical background, manufacturing facilities and range of products]; [produced
by] Firth Brown Ltd., 1966 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 S)
 Casting, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SQ)
 Steel tubes for high temperature applications, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SQ)
 Pension scheme rules, etc. 1953 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 93)
 The Staybrite Book (Firth Brown, 1934) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SSTQ)
 Developing special steels at the Brown-Firth research laboratories, 1937 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3435 M)
 Souvenir of a visit to the Atlas and Norfolk Works, 1954 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 The Installation of a New Electric Steel Melting Plant, 1975 (Sheffield Archives: X219)
 Firth Brown Ltd. 132 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: ‘Rule books; plans and diagrams; wage slips; newsletters; reports, etc., 1840 - 1975 are available at Kelham island industrial
Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNFB) http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnfb&cid=0#0.
Papers relating to the Dreadnought file milling machine, 1950 - 1954 are available at Hawley Collection trust (Sheffield) (ref. FIR) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2746-fir&cid=0#0. (accessed January 2011).
Firth Brown - A Tour of the Works’ (film), 1957 is available at the Yorkshire film Archive (ref. 3309).
Firth Brown Castings Limited
Steel Casting Manufacturers
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1973, Directors monthly reports, 1978 - 1981, Managing Director's reports, 1981 - 1985
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(Sheffield Archives: X358)
 2 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Firth Brown Engineers Limited
Engineers
Sheffield
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1947 (Sheffield Archives: X336)
Firth Brown Steels Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Sheffield
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1947, Directors minutes, 1947 - 1949, other records (Sheffield Archives: X334)
Firth Brown Tools Limited
Engineers’ Cutting Tool Manufacturers
Carlisle Street, Sheffield
 Records, [20th cent] (Sheffield Archives: MD8103)
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, director’s reports, correspondence, plant valuation and other records, 1946 - 1962 (Sheffield
Archives: X333)
 Welcome to the works of Thos. Firth & John Brown Ltd., 1953 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 418)
 Speedicut Engineers' Cutting Tools Digest, 1968 (Sheffield Reference Library: 621.93)
 Firth Brown Tools Ltd. 3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Firth Cleveland Steel Limited
Specialist Steel Strip Producer
Wentworth Street, Sheffield and Holmes Mill, Rotherham
 Steel Strip, [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 671.3 SSTQ)
Firth-Derihon Stampings Limited
Forged Component Manufacturers
Sheffield Road, Tinsley
 Directors minutes and reports, 1962 - 1973, Board reports, 1980 - 1981, Chairman's Reports, 1933 - 1962, annual accounts, 1961 
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1966 and other papers, 1919 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: X320)
Various printed items (Sheffield Local Studies Library: ephemera file)
3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Firth Rixson
 Reports and accounts, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
Firth Vickers Centrispinning Limited
Garter Street, Sheffield
 7 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Firth Vickers Stainless Steels Limited
Steelworks and Rolling Mill
Staybrite Works, Weedon Street, Sheffield
 Records relating to corporate and management, finance, plant and property, promotion and subsidiary companies, 1929 - 1982
(Sheffield Archives: X325)
 Stainless steel in architecture, 1963 (Sheffield Reference Library: 691.7 Q)
 25 years of Staybrite stainless steels, 1934-1959 (Firth-Vickers Stainless Steels Ltd., 1959) (Sheffield Reference Library: 338.4 SST)
 The story of stainless steel, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3246 M)
 Staybrite Chronicle, 1956 – 1972 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 054.74 S)
 Enchiridion magazine, 1950 – 1966 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 054.74 S)
 Where ‘Staybrite’ stainless steels are made, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 279 no. 4)
 Rust, acids and heat resisting steels, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.961 SST)
 Firth Vickers Stainless Steels Ltd. 48 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: ‘Hub of the House, a promotional film for Firth-Vickers ‘Staybrite’ stainless steel from the 1940s is available at the Yorkshire film
Archive (ref. 3308).
Firth Vickers Foundry Limited
 Monthly Report, 1981; Expenditure and Capital Report, 1979 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: X364)
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Harry Fisher and Company
Steel and File Manufacturer
Kingfisher Works, Rockingham Street, Sheffield
 Daybooks; order books; letter books etc.1890 - 1978 (Sheffield Archives: MD6651-6753)
 Drawings and patterns for blades etc. (Sheffield Archives: MD7179)
W. T. Flather Limited
Manufacturer of Special Steels
Standard Steel Works, Tinsley, Sheffield
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Financial and legal records, etc., 1884 - 1957 (Sheffield Archives: X169)
Catalogue, 1950 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SSTQ)
Works rules, 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 2629 S)
9 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Fleet Steels Limited
 Articles of Association, 1964 and annual accounts and directors reports, 1969 - 1972, 1974 - 1977 (Sheffield Archives: TW/287-288)
Ford City Machinery Sales Company
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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 Record book, 1935 - 1965, stock certificate book, 1935 - 1940, nominal ledger, 1935 - 1965 and sales journal, 1936 - 1964 (Sheffield
Archives: TW/289-292)
Sheffield Forgemasters
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Forgemasters Engineering Limited
 Miscellaneous plans, 20th cent (Sheffield Archives: MD7733)
Forsyth and Walker
 Articles of Association, 1961, register of members, 1962 - 1981, AGM minutes, 1962 - 1981, annual accounts, 1967 - 1981, annual
returns, 1967 - 1981, etc 1982 (Sheffield Archives: TW/293-297)
John Fowler (Don Foundry) Limited (also Walker, Eaton and Company, Walker Griffiths, later Walker
Steel Works)
Attercliffe Bridge, Sheffield
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 Order books, yard books, sales daybooks 1918-1942; journals, ledgers, cash sales of scrap 1918-1956; wages book 1936-1942;
Partnership deed 1831; [19th - 20th cent] (Sheffield Archives: WD)
 Diaries 1856-1923 (Sheffield Archives: MD7727)
 The Life of Sir John Fowler, Engineer, Thomas Mackay, 1900 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: B.F829 S)
 Ledger (Sheffield Archives: LD2073)
John Fowler and Company (Leeds) Limited
Engineers
Leathley Road, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire
 Memorandum and articles of association 1886, 1951, register of members 1977 - 1979, annual accounts and directors’ reports 1955,
1964 - 1968; valuation of premises, etc. (Sheffield Archives: TW/300-311)
Samuel Fox and Company
Steel Manufacturers
Stocksbridge
 Memoranda & Articles 1871-1899; Board of Directors' minutes 1871-1971; register of directors 1855-1966; directors' attendance book
1928-1971; minutes of General Meetings 1872-1970; Quarterly Sales minutes 1937-1939; Branch Managers' minutes 1940;
shareholders' records 1871-1905; financial records 1871-1913; balance sheets 1946-1969; register of mortgages 1907-1932;
property sales 1931; patents and agreements mid 19th century-1943; specifications of patents 1857-1880; correspondence 18471887; additional items (Sheffield Archives: Fox)
 Trade advertisements, 1858 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 125 M)
 The Fox Magazine, 1946 - 1966 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S; 1946 - 1948 also available at Stocksbridge Library:
942.741)
 Fox News, 1964 (Stocksbridge Library: Samuel Fox 1)
 About Samuel Fox and Company Limited: A handbook for old and new employees Stocksbridge, 1952, 1961 and 1964 (Stocksbridge
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‘Durehete’ Creep-resisting steel, 1935 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 620.17 SST)
Samuel Fox & Co., 1842 - 1942 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
Samuel Fox & Co., Hazel Stansfield, [1967] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Report of the Directors, 1881 - 1913 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Brochure, 1968 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Stansfield, Hazel, ‘Samuel Fox & Company Limited, 1842-1967’ (United Steels, 1968) (Stocksbridge Library: 942.74)
A Fox Centenary: umbrellas 1848 – 1948, S Moxon (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ and Sheffield Reference Library: 689
Q)
British Steel - behind the export of special steels: a survey of Samuel Fox’s exporting tactics, 1968 (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
MP 463 L)
60 ton arc furnace (Samuel Fox and Co., 1954) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 202 no. 2 (042 S))
Sheffield Reference Library: 669.8)
"Durehete" creep resisting steel: free from temperature-strain-age embrittlement: for steam temperatures of 664F (932C) to 932F
(500C) with high pressures, 1935 (Sheffield Central Library: 620.17 SST0)
Historical Cases: a collection of legal proceedings relating to Samuel Fox and Company Ltd., 1928 (Stocksbridge Library)
Sheldon, Joseph, ‘The Founders and Builders of Stocksbridge Works’, 1922 (Stocksbridge Library: 942.71)
Road vehicle springs, 1944 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 629.243 SST)
Miscellaneous papers relating to Samuel Fox and Company Limited (Stocksbridge Library: 3/31 and 942.74 and Samuel Fox 1)
Patent for rolling steel wire, 1874 (Sheffield Archives: MD6310)
89 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: Minutes and registers of directors, 1948 - 1980 are available at the Tata Steel UK Limited Shotton Records Centre (Deeside)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B10434 (accessed October 2011).
Albert Frost and Company Limited
Engineering Factors
Farm Bank Road, Sheffield
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 Private Ledger 1938 - 1941, Purchase Ledger 1933 - 1951, Sales Ledger 1924 - 1947, Purchase Journal 1935 - 1952, Day Books
1936 - 1961 (Sheffield Archives: MD7636)
 Day books, 1946 – 1961; ledgers, 1938 - 1952 (Sheffield Archives: BUS9)
J. B. Fry and Company (Sheffield) Limited
Stainless steel stockholders
Lambert Street, Sheffield
 Day book, 1969 - 1977 (Sheffield Archives: SY383)
Glossop Superalloys Limited
Superalloy Manufacturers
 Directors' Board reports, 1980 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: X368)
Greening Wire Company Limited
Wire Manufacturers
Warrington, Cheshire
 Shareholder Registers, 1939 - 1975; financial journal, 1966 - 1982 (Sheffield Archives: X330)
N. Greening and Sons Limited
Wire Manufacturers
Warrington, Cheshire
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 Directors minutes, 1956 - 1979; Shareholder Registers, 1952 - 1982 (Sheffield Archives: X331)
N. Greening (St. Helens) Limited
Wire Manufacturers
St. Helens, Lancashire
 Registers of directors, 1968 - 1980 (Sheffield Archives: X354)
Greenings (Mechanisation) Limited
Engineers
Warrington, Cheshire
 Directors minutes, 1952 - 1979, share register, 1952 - 1980 (Sheffield Archives: X339)
Green’s Iron Foundry
Iron Founders
Ecclesfield
Note: accounts and other papers, 1845 - 1972 are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (re. MNGF) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mngf&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
Gregory and Taylor
Engineering Suppliers
Worksop Road, Sheffield
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 Sale day books, 1946-1966 (Sheffield Archives: LD2415)
Guest Keen Nettlefold (GKN) Steel Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Near Birmingham, Warwickshire
 Board meeting and other reports, 1960 - 1966 (Sheffield Archives: X344)
J. J. Habershon & Sons Limited
Holmes Mills, Rotherham
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One trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Hadfields Limited / Hadfields Group
Steel Manufacturers
East Hecla Works, Tinsley and Hecla Works, Newhall Road, Sheffield
 Board minutes; ledgers; annual reports and accounts, legal agreements, patents; records of company sports club etc. [19th - 20th
cent] (Sheffield Archives: HAD)
 Copy drawing of the arrangement of a single roll coal breaker, 1923 (Sheffield Archives: LD2517)
 Deeds, correspondence, etc, 1935 (Sheffield Archives: LD2011)
 Trade card, 1887 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
 Share prospectus, 1920 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3148 M)
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The First 100 Years: Hadfields of Sheffield, A W McKears, 1973 (typescript) (Sheffield Local Studies Library 338.4 SQ)
Hadfield Bulletin, 1938 - 1941 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SQ)
Hadfield Group staff society ‘New Era’, 1964 - 1968 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
Hadfield News, 1978 - 1982 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
Plan of East Hecla Works, 1962 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 274 VL)
The ‘Sylat’ prop withdrawer, 1914 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 622.28 SSTQ)
The Hadfield System as applied to war material, 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 623.4 SSTQ)
The Evolution of the Modern AP Projectile [in] Brassey’s Naval and Shipping Annual, [1920s] (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
623.4518 SST)
Note on the new armour piercing steel: reprinted from Brassey’s Naval and Shipping Annual, 1934 (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
local pamphlets vol. 325 no. 5 (042 S))
Business and investment strategies in the inter-war British steel industry: a case study of Hadfields Ltd. and Bean Cars, Geoffrey
Tweedale, 1987 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 042 SST Local pamphlets, vol. 57)
Hadfields Steel Foundry Co. Ltd: Hecla Works Attercliffe and East Hecla Works, Tinsley, 1905 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4
S)
The Making of Manganese Steel, 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 53 Nos. 9 & 10 (042 S))
Manganese Steel, 1956 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SST)
Research, 1953 (Sheffield Reference Library: 620.17 Q)
Reports of the Chairman’s speech at the Annual General Meeting, 1919, 1929- 1943, 1946 - 1949, 1951 (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: 338.4 SQ and PAMP 26 and 27 SQ)
Report and accounts, 1953 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Ordinary General Meeting 1915 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 32 no. 8 (042 S))
Reports to shareholders, 1956 - 1958, 1961 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP1708M)
An account of the research department, 1953 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SST)
Service for Industry booklet, 1951 and 1960s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S and SQ)
Chronological catalogue of the Hadfield Collection of Metallurgical books dating chiefly from 1550 and up to 1880, 1914 (Sheffield
Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 58 no. 6 (042 S))
Various addresses and research papers presented by Sir R A Hadfield (Sheffield Local Studies Library: card index)
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 A short description of Hadfields Ltd: it’s history, plant and manufactures, 1938 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol.
136 no. 16 and vol. 159 no. 4 (042 S))
 Charles Docherty, Steel and Steelworkers: the sons of Vulcan (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.476691 ST)
 Royal visit, 1915 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SST)
 Visit of J C Smuts and Sir John Jellicoe, 1917 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 665 M, MP 680 S and local pamphlets vol. 180 no.
5 (042 S))
 Visit of Master Cutler’s party, 1930 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 325 no. 9 (042 S))
 Visit of Yorkshire Coal Exchange Ltd., 1938 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 325 no. 6 (042 S))
 Coronation of George VI: grand field day in Hadfields sports ground, 1937 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP2255 S)
 Your career, 1950s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SST)
 Certificate of craftsmanship, 1953 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 153 L)
 Ship's Bell for H.M.S. "Sheffield" presented by Hadfields Limited, East Hecla Works, Sheffield, 1952 (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
MP 3536 M)
 Blue ‘un, 1953 (unofficial publication probably produced by staff in Hadfields Ltd. drawing office) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP
303 L)
 Metallurgy and the motor car, 1930 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 526)
 Hadfield's laminated springs, 1926 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3147 M)
 The Abbot of Hecla: a fantasy, c. 1913 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 13)
 Hadfields Ltd. 67 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: technical papers are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNHD) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnhd&cid=0#0 (accessed October 2011).
Hadura Products Limited
Forged Steel Roll and Extrusion Press Component Manufacturers
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 Registers of Directors, 1964 - 1980 (Sheffield Archives: X350)
 2 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Hale and Pennington Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Moorfields Works, Snow Lane, Sheffield
 Cash book and ledgers, 1920 - 1960 (Sheffield Archives: LD1946-1948)
Hall and Pickles Limited
Steel Manufacturers and Iron Merchants
Snow Lane, Sheffield
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Advertisement for Hydrex free cutting stainless steels, 1950 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 687 M and 338.4 SQ)
Hydra Steels, 1950 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
History, 1982 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
21 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Hallamshire Iron and Steel Company
 AGM minutes 1873-1969; financial records 1890-1948; letter book 1873-1896, 1937-1939; journals 1884-1940; register of members
1873-1918 (Sheffield Archives: BUS1)
 Hallamsteel specification, [19th - 20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.961 SST)
Note: minutes, registers, etc., of Hallamshire Steel Company 1873, 1948 - 1981 are available at the Tata Steel UK Limited Shotton
Records Centre (Deeside) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B10477 (accessed January 2011).
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Hallamshire Steel and File Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Hallamshire Works, Bardwell Road, Sheffield
 Board agendas 1951-1954; dividend lists 1874-1946; register of debentures 1879-1891; salaries 1873-1942; pension fund 1951-1957;
share holders' records 1873-1938, 1947; financial records 1873-1884; title deeds late 18th cent - late 19th cent; deeds of partnership
etc., 1848-1928 (Sheffield Archives: BUS1)
Hardenite Steel Company Limited
Hardenite Steelworks
Attercliffe Road, Sheffield
 Articles of association, 1909 (Sheffield Archives:MD7058)
 Trade catalogues, [?20th cent] (Sheffield Archives: MD7066)
Henry Hardwick and Sons Limited
Providence Works, Matilda Street, Sheffield
 2 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
K W Hawley (Tools) Limited
Tool dealers
Earl Street, Sheffield
 Purchase and sales invoices 1965 - 1967, stock books 1966-1967 etc (Sheffield Archives: SY38)
Heeley Rolling Mills
Silver Rolling and Wire Mills
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Guernsey Road, Sheffield
 Price lists, 1940s - 1950s (Sheffield Archives: MD7345)
 Brochure, [20th cent.] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Hemmings Limited
Valley Works, Grange Lane, Sheffield
 3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
High Speed Steel Alloys Limited
Tungsten Metal Powder Manufacturers
Widnes, Lancashire
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1956 (Sheffield Archives: HAD)
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1956; Annual Reports and Accounts, 1953 - 1967 (Sheffield Archives: X370)
Hillfoot Steel Group Limited
Herries Road, Sheffield
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1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Holbrook Precision Castings Limited
Holbrook Works, Halfway, Sheffield
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1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Houlders Limited
Steamship Owners
The White Building, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield
 Draft annual accounts and directors’ reports, 1969 (Sheffield Archives: TW/323)
 Stevens, Edward Francis, ‘One hundred years of Houlders: a record of the history of Houlder Brothers & Co. Ltd., from 1849 to 1950’
(Sheffield Reference Library: 338.761387)
Howell and Company Limited
Tube Manufacturers
Sheffield Tube Works, Wincobank, Sheffield
 Tubes of Steel being the history of Howell & Co. Ltd., Sheffield Tube Works, 1865 – 1971 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4
SSTQ)
 Howco Fin tube, 1969 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 27 no. 10 (042 S))
 Howells Cold drawn seamless steel tube, 1969 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 27 no. 11 (042 S))
J Hoyland
Iron and Steel Merchant
York Street, Sheffield
 Ledger, 1786-1794 (microfilm) (Sheffield Archives: A91)
J H Humphreys and Sons Limited
Precision Engineers
Oldham, Lancashire
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Records (Sheffield Archives: Aurora II)
Benjamin Huntsman Limited / Benjamin Huntsman (Sales) Limited
Steel Manufacturer
Tinsley Park Road, Sheffield
 Directors minutes, 1918 - 1954, ledgers, annual accounts, etc. 1901 - 1968 (Sheffield Archives: Had)
 Account books; copy letter books, 1890 - 1940 (Sheffield Archives: MD7941)
 Ledgers 1788 - 1917; order books 1797 - 1814; stock book 1843; wages book 1901 - 1952; test book 1910 - 1944; share registers
1918 - 1950 (Sheffield Archives: LD1612-1624)
 Account books, letter books, c. 1870-1933 (Sheffield Archives: MD7171)
 Account of cast steel, 1792 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 140 Nos. 14 and 15 (042 S))
 Brief History, 1742 - 1930 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
Note: Papers, mainly regarding trademarks, 1854 - 1934, are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNBH) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnbh&cid=0#0 (accessed October 2011).
Hytemp Nickel Alloys Limited
Herries Road, Sheffield
 2 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
I. G. Technologies Limited
The Ickles, Rotherham
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4 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Ibbotson Brothers and Company Limited
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Steel and File Manufacturers
Globe Steel Works, Sheffield
 Minutes of Board meetings 1872-1887; balance sheets, ledgers, registers of shareholders and share transfers 1872-1971; trade
catalogues, employee records, 1901 - 1972 (Sheffield Archives: LD1145-1155, MD8197)
 History of the Globe Works, 1988 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 5132 M)
George Ibbotson Limited
Saw Manufacturers
Bailey Street, Sheffield
 Saws catalogue, 1979 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC IBBO)
Ilkeston Metal and Waste Company Limited
[Metal wastes]
[Ilkeston, Derbyshire]
 Memorandum and articles of association, 1954, annual account and director’s reports, 1955-1975 (with gaps), copy annual returns of
members and shareholdings, 1956-1971 (Sheffield Archives: TW/324-326)
Import, Export (Technical Limited)
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1956 (Sheffield Archives: TW/327)
T. Inman
Britannia Steel Works, Furnival Road, Sheffield
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2 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Invicta Spring Company
Spring Manufacturers
Wentworth Street, Tinsley, Attercliffe, Sheffield
 Records, 1924 - 1959 (Sheffield Archives: Aurora/178-181)
The Iron and Steel Export Company Limited
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Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1919 (Sheffield Archives: MD7058)
William Jackson and Sons
Steel Refiners
Sheaf Island Works, Sheffield
 Trade card, [late 19th cent.] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1215 S)
William Jessop and Sons Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Brightside Steel Works, Brightside Lane, Sheffield
 Records (Sheffield Archives: MD7889)
 Memorandum and New Articles of Association of 1931; Minute book of the directors and stockholders of William Jessop and Sons
Incorporated of New York, U.S.A, 1910 - 1937 (Sheffield Archives: SY678)
 Trade catalogue of Brightside Works, no date (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SF)
 Visit to a Sheffield Steelworks, 1913 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 BSA News, 1952 onwards (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74S)
 Photographs of Bishop Hunter’s visit, c. 1950 (Sheffield Archives: BHP)
 Hadfield, Charles, ‘William Jessop, Engineer, Charles Hadfield and A.W. Skempton’ (David and Charles, 1979) (Sheffield Reference
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Library: B.JESS)
 Photograph album, c. 1921 - 1970 (Sheffield Archives: MD8004)
 Technical drawings, c. 1914 - 1916 (Sheffield Archives: X397)
Note: Papers, reports and photographs, 1897 - 1968 are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNJM)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnjm&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
Jonas and Colver
Elm Lane, Sheffield
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12 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Kayser Ellison and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Carlisle Steel Works, Carlisle Street East, Sheffield
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Wire Department: letter book 1940-1946; order book 1930-1946; cost book 1925-1948 (Sheffield Archives: LD2350-2352)
Stainless Steels, 1967 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 259 no. 12 (042 S))
Debenture stock, 1922 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP1223M)
High grade special steels, 1948 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.961 SST)
Debenture stock prospectus, 1922 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1223 M)
Kayser Ellison and Co Ltd. 13 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Jessop Saville Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Brightside Works, Brightside Lane, Sheffield
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Directors minute books, 1876-1938, share certificate book 1910-1948, private ledgers, 1876-1938 (Sheffield Archives: MD7584)
 Reports for Board Meetings, 1967 - 1973, legal agreements, 1965 - 1970, etc. (Sheffield Archives: X351)
 68 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
K. E. I. (Holmer Green) Limited
Holmer Green, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
 Directors minutes, 1972 - 1980, nominal ledger (Sheffield Archives: X337)
John Kenyon and Company Limited
Toolmakers
Millsands Steelworks, Sheffield
 Minutes, 1909 - 1930; financial records, 1911 - 1930; receivers papers, 1930 (Sheffield Archives: SY244)
 Catalogue, [?19th – 20th cent] (Sheffield Archives: SY764)
 Bi-centenary celebrations, 1710 - 1910 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 115 no. 9 (042 S))
Johnson Firth Brown Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Norfolk Works, Savile Street, Sheffield
 Records relating to corporate and management, legal, financial, employment, production and sales, plant and property, promotional
material, research, overseas company, trade association, 1784 - 1984 (Sheffield Archives: X306)
 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Johnson Firth Brown (Exports) Limited
Export Services
Sheffield
 Financial ledgers, 1978 - 1981, correspondence, 1977 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: X362)
 Newsletter, 1978 - 1979 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
Johnson Firth Brown Technology Limited
Overseas Steel Manufacturing Licensors
Sheffield
 Board of Directors’ Reports, 1980 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: X365)
Johnson Firth Brown (Works Trustees) Limited
Works Trustees Company
Sheffield
 Agenda and Copy Minutes, 1981, financial statement, 1980 (Sheffield Archives: X363)
Richard Johnson and Nephew Limited
Wire and Cable Manufacturers
Manchester, Lancashire
 Records relating to corporate and management, financial and production and sales, 1874 - 1972 (Sheffield Archives: X309)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Keeton, Sons and Company Limited
Manufacturers of sheet metal machine tools
Royds Foundry and Engineering Works, Sheffield
 Trade catalogue, [1920s] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC KEE)
 2 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
The Kingcliffe Engineering Company Limited
 Register of members and share ledge, 1941 - 1951; register of directors’ shareholdings in other companies, 1948; directors’ reports
and annual accounts, 1947 - 1951 (Sheffield Archives: TW/330-338)
Kiveton Park Steel and Wire Works Limited
Kiveton Park, Sheffield
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5 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
T. Lambert and Sons
Tool Manufacturers
Napier Forge and Hammer Works, Solferino Street, Sheffield
 Illustrated price list [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC LAMB)
 Catalogue, ?1930s (Sheffield Archives: HAD/box 120)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Lavite Limited
 Profit and Loss Accounts and Balance Sheets, 1968 - 1971, Journal, 1952 - 1972, Private Ledger, 1952 - 1971 (Sheffield Archives:
X340)
Thomas Lawrence and Company
Steel Castings Manufacturers
Attercliffe Road and Warren Street, Sheffield
 Directors’ minute book, 1900 - 1905 and Memoranda and Articles of Association, 1900 (Sheffield Archives: BUS1)
Arthur Lee and Sons Limited
Trubrite Steelworks, P.O. Box 54, Meadowhall, Wincobank, Sheffield
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24 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
John Lee of Grantham Limited / John Lee and Sons (Grantham) Limited / John Lee Group
Scrap metal Dealers
Grantham, Lincolnshire
 Articles of association, 1912, 1970, 1973; annual accounts 1912 - 1980; private ledgers 1911 - 1978, title deeds, 1729 - 1955 etc.
(Sheffield Archives: TW/340, 342-345, 348-359)
Note: 1912-78: minutes, register of members, share certificate books, 1912 - 1978 are held at the Tata Steel UK Limited, Shotton
Records Centre (Deeside) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B18019 (accessed January 2011).
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Leech Brain and Company Limited
Steel Fabricators and Erectors
Bilston, West Midlands
 Annual accounts and directors’ reports, 1964 - 1970 (Sheffield Archives: TW/360)
Lincoln Metal and Waste Company Limited
[Waste metal dealers
Lincoln]
 Memorandum and articles of association, 1935; annual accounts and directors’ reports, 1936 - 1973; annual returns of members and
shareholdings, 1949 - 1971 (Sheffield Archives: TW/361-363)
Loanport (formerly John Fraser and Son Limited)
 Register of members, 1961 - 1980, directors’ meetings minutes 1937-1981; annual returns of shareholdings, etc. (Sheffield Archives:
TW/364-369)
Lockwood and Carlisle Limited
Piston ring, spring and valve manufacturers
Stalker Lees Road, Sheffield
 Records (Sheffield Archives: SY518)
 Merrill, John, ‘A Hundred years of History’ (Lockwood and Carlisle, 1976) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Lonrho Engineering Group
 Minutes, 1977 - 1980 (Sheffield Archives: HAD)
Low Moor Alloy Steelworks Limited
High Speed, Special Steels, etc.
Bradford, West Yorkshire, later at Aurora House, Julian Road, Sheffield
 Minute books, 1950 - 1969 (Sheffield Archives: Aurora III)
Low Moor Best Yorkshire Iron Limited
Bradford, West Yorkshire
 Articles of association, 1924; annual accounts and directors’ reports, 1930 - 1947, 1964 - 1970, etc. (Sheffield Archives: TW/370-375)
Low Moor Fine Steels Limited
Special Steel Extrusions
Low Moor, Bradford, West Yorkshire
 Minute books, 1938 - 1955 (Sheffield Archives: Aurora III)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
G. W. Lowe Limited
Machine Knife Manufacturers
Sheffield
 Minutes, 1926 - 1938; wages books, 1941 - 1947 (Sheffield Archives: X323)
McCall and Company (Sheffield) Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Meadowhall, Sheffield
 Board of Directors' minutes 1968-1970; Committee & Working Party minutes 1960s-1972; financial records 1935-1963; annual
accounts 1941-1943, 1950, 1954; trading results 1971-1972; period results 1969-1971; lists of patents 1965-1968; manuals for
products, photographs etc. 1950s-1960s; reports on products, techniques, metrication 1960s-1972 (Sheffield Archives: MD7377)
 McCalls Meadowhall Works, 1966 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 259 no. 7 (042 S))
Note: Minute book and register of members, 1949 - 1981 are available at the Corus Records Centre (Deeside) and accounting and
salaries records, 1923 - 1970 are available at the Corus Northern Regional Records Centre (Middlesbrough)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B23507 (accessed January 2011)
McCalls Macalloy Limited,
Prestressed Concrete Tendon Manufacturers
Dinnington, Sheffield
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Board of Directors' minutes 1968-1970; Committee & Working Party minutes 1960s-1972; financial records 1935-1963; annual
accounts 1941-1943, 1950, 1954; trading results 1971-1972; period results 1969-1971; lists of patents 1965-1968; manuals for
products, photographs etc. 1950s-1960s; reports on products, techniques, metrication 1960s-1972 (Sheffield Archives: MD7377)
 Macalloy post tensioning manual (McCalls Macalloy Limited, 1957) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 693.5 SST)
 One trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: Corporate records, 1935 - 1980 are available at the Tata Steel UK Limited Shotton Records Centre (Deeside); accounting records,
1951 - 1963 are available at the Corus Northern Regional Records Centre (Middlesbrough) and board of directors minutes, working party
minutes, annual accounts, trading results, patents, reports on products, 1935 - 1972 are available at Lincolnshire Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B23506 (accessed January 2011).
J. W. Maher and Sons Limited, Special Steels Division
Sheffield
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J. W. Maher 3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Thomas Makin and Son
Manufacturers of crucible cast steel, etc.
Castle Works, Edward Street, Sheffield
 Trade card, c. 1890 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Manganese Steel Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
East Hecla Works, Newhall Road, Attercliffe
 Directors reports, journal, cash book and ledger, 1902 - 1967 (Sheffield Archives: HAD)
William Marples and Sons Limited
Toolmakers
Hibernia Works, Westfield Terrace and Rockingham Street, Sheffield
 Price lists, 1909 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SQ and 672 SST)
 Catalogue, 1938 (Sheffield Archives: SY122)
Note: Price lists and correspondence c. 1880-1954; advertising literature from 1935; foreign orders for edge tool department 1938-1942;
production costs 1939-1943 and other papers are available at the Hawley Collection Trust (Sheffield) (ref. MAR) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2746-mar&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011)
Marriott and Atkinson
Steel and File Manufacturers
Fitzalan Steelworks, Attercliffe, Sheffield
 Illustrated article from The Penny Magazine describing the works and processes, 1844 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 6126 M)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Marsden and Beeton
Steel and File Manufacturers
Middlesex Works, Newcastle Street, Sheffield
 Trade accounts and balance sheets, 1875 - 1909 (Sheffield Archives: MD6523)
Marsh Brothers and Company Limited
Manufacturers of steel files, twist drills, saws, razors etc.
Ponds Steelworks, Shude Lane, Sheffield
 Partnership deeds and accounts; financial papers relating 1810-1907; accounts 1917-1960s; notes of North American trade orders
1827-1841, day book of shipments 1847-1885; correspondence and invoices regarding home and oversees orders 1840 - 1928;
Appointment of agents in all parts of the world, 19th - [20th cent] Production costs, 1828-1835, catalogues from 1845; Reports of steel
trials 1890-1927, and high speed steel technology 1909-1941; title deeds etc (Sheffield Archives: MARSH, MD1485-1486, MD67706777)
 Ground plan of Pond Forge, 1864 and photographs 1889-1890 (Sheffield Archives: MD7017)
 Catalogue and price list, 19th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SSTQ)
 Three Centuries of Sheffield Steel: The Story of a Family Business, S Pollard, 1954 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
Note: correspondence; blueprints, drawings, inspection reports; quotations plans; price lists; financial and other papers, 1941 - 1972 are
available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNMB) http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448mnmb&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
Marshall Richards Barcro Limited
Tube Processing and Wire Drawing Equipment
Bishop Auckland, County Durham
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Annual accounts and directors report, 1970 (Sheffield Archives: TW/390)
Marshall Richards Barcro (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited
 Memorandum and articles of association, 1972 (Sheffield Archives: TW/391)
Marshall-Fowler Limited
Boiler Manufacturers
Gainsbrough, Lincolnshire
 Articles of association, 1936-1970; register of members, 1936-1979; directors meetings minutes 1966-1981; general meeting minutes,
1936-1981; annual accounts, 1964 - 1967 (Sheffield Archives: TW/376-389)
C Meadows and Company
Steel Manufacturers
Alliance Rolling Mills, Tinsley Park Road, Sheffield
 Minutes 1891-1953; balance sheets, etc. 1891-1946 (Sheffield Archives: BDR)
Midland and Low Moor Iron and Steel Company Limited
Midland Iron Works, Rotherham
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1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Midland Rollmakers Corporation
Cast Roll Manufacturers
Crewe, Cheshire
 Managing Directors Reports, 1977 - 1981, financial statements, 1980 - 1981, publicity and other material (Sheffield Archives: X345)
Midlands Industrial Trading Company Limited
 Minutes 1937 (Sheffield Archives: Aurora/186)
Mill Lane Holdings Limited
 Private ledger, 1954 - 1959 (Sheffield Archives: TW/393)
Miller and Company Limited
Steel Cast Roll Manufacturers
Edinburgh [Midlothian]
 Directors' Board reports, 1980 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: X366)
Millspaugh Limited
Paper making machinery and non-ferrous centrifugal castings
Alsing Road, Sheffield
 Directors minutes, 1956 - 1958 (Sheffield Archives: HAD)
 Report and accounts 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: Journals)
 Trade catalogue, 1950s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC MILL)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Modern Hardmetals Limited
Manufacturers of tungsten carbide products
Don Road, Sheffield
Minutes, registers, 1941 - 1980 are available at the Tata Steel UK Limited Shotton Records Centre (Deeside)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B23486 (accessed January 2011)
Moore and Wright
Engineers Tools Manufacturers
Trafalgar Street, Sheffield
 News cuttings book, 1935 - 1955 (Sheffield Archives: X2)
John M. Moorwood Limited
Iron Founders
Stevenson Road, Attercliffe, Sheffield
 Order book, c. 1916 - 1930 (Sheffield Archives: MD7750)
Moss and Gamble Bros Limited
Franklin Works, Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield
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3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Naylor, Vickers and Company
Steel Castings
River Don Works / Bridge Street / Millsands, Sheffield
 Advertisement, 1858 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 124 M)
 Valuation of Don Works, Millsands, 1857 (Sheffield Archives: SY141)
Neepsend Steel Division
Don Street Works, Saville Street, Sheffield
 2 Trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
James Neill and Company
Steel Manufacturer
Composite Steel Works, Napier Street, Sheffield
 Introducing the works of James Neill & Company (Sheffield) Ltd. and the Hallamshire Steel Co. Limited (James Neill & Company
(Sheffield) Ltd., 1960s) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 399)
 Reports and accounts, 20th cent (James Neill Holdings plc, 1989) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
 The History behind the James Neill Group, (James Neill Holdings Ltd., 1979) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 400)
 James Neill Holdings Plc; Francis Industries Limited; F. H. Lloyd Holdings Plc; the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company; Metal
Closures Group Plc; Winchmore Plc: Investigations Under Section 442 of the Companies Act 1985, A Report by Dr Anthony Evans &
Brian Leslie Worth (HMSO, 1993) (Sheffield Reference Library: 346.066 Q)
 James Neill: a century of quality and service, 1889-1989 (James Neill Holdings plc, 1989) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Chairman’s address James Neill Holdings Ltd., 1981 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3478 M)
 Examples of the James Neill Bulletin International, James Neill Holdings Ltd., 1977-1978 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 3479 A-B)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 [Souvenir booklet issued to mark the 75th anniversary of] James Neill and Company (Sheffield) Limited, 1964 (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Trade catalogue, hacksaw blades, etc, 1960 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SSTQ)
 Enterprise / Eclipse Enterprise News, 1968 - 1972 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SQ)
 Tools from James Neill and Company, 1978 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 298 no. 8 (042 S))
 James Neill Ltd. 5 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Samuel Newbould and Sons
Edge Tool Manufacturers, etc.
Bridgefield Works, Newhall Road, Brightside, Sheffield
 Memorial book of employees, 1877 (Sheffield Archives: MD8186)
 Deed of partnership, 1784 - 1789 (Sheffield Archives: MD6193)
Newton Chambers and Company
General Engineers and Iron Founders
Moorhead and Thorncliffe Works, Chapeltown, Sheffield
 Correspondence, 1776 - 1915; Day books, 1793 - 1852, purchase, order and sales ledgers, 1793 - 1891; stock books, 1793 - 1829,
1874 - 1881; transport records, 1795 - 1909; production records, 1817 - 1891; prints and pattern books, 1845 - 1938; partnership
records, 1802 - 1953; works records, 1894 - 1957 (Sheffield Archives: TR)
 Cash book, 19th - 20th cent? (Sheffield Archives: MD8049)
 Surveyors records of collieries and ironworks, 19th - 20th cent? (Sheffield Archives: MD3586)
 Churchill Tank Manufacture - making tanks at New Chambers during World War II (Sheffield Local Studies Library: Video 133)
 The History and works of Newton Chambers & Co. Ltd., 1935 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: Video 253)
 Newton Chambers & Co. Ltd. publicity film, 1935 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: Video 162)
 Festival of Britain celebrations, [1951] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: Video 164)
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Welcome to Work: school leavers begin work at Newton Chambers, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: Video 170)
Catalogue of grates and cooking ranges, 19th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 739.4 SSTQ)
Patterns catalogue, 1878 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SSTQ and 739.4 SSTQ)
Catalogues, 1938 (Sheffield Archives: SY129)
Rain water pipes and connectors etc trade catalogue no. 5, 1907 (Sheffield Archives: MD7761/14)
Newton Chambers & Co. Ltd. / Thorncliffe News, 1946 - 1974 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SF & SQ)
Thorncliffe: a description of the industries and industrial community of Newton Chambers & Co. Ltd., [1949] (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: 338.4 SQ)
Thorncliffe: a description of the industries and industrial community of Newton Chambers & Co. Ltd., [1955] and [1961] (Sheffield Local
Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 10 no. 10 and vol. 12 no. 6 (042 S))
Thorncliffe: a short history of Newton Chambers & Co. Ltd. and its people, [1953 - 1958] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
The Yield of the Years: a pageant of Thorncliffe, 1783 - 1946, L du Garde Peach, 1946 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local
pamphlets vol. 17 no. 2 (042 S))
Turnaround: Managerial Recipes for Strategic Success: the fall and rise of the Newton Chambers group, 1979, P M Grinver and J C
Spender (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S; also available at Sheffield Reference Library: 338.47[62])
A Most Enterprising Thing: an Illustrated History to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Establishment of Newton Chambers at
Thorncliffe, Joan Jones (ed), 1993 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Parables of Industry, George Needham, 1948 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 176 no. 12 (042 S))
Newton Chambers Group of Companies, 1966 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 22 no. 5 (042 S) and PAMP 125
SQ)
Company photograph album, 1940s - 1950s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
Photograph album, c. 1940s - 1950s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
Note: Advertising literature, manuals, brochures, photographs etc. are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref.
MNNC) http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnnc&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
J. Nichol Limited
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Nominal ledger, 1949 - 1966, private ledger, 1922 - 1966 (Sheffield Archives: X322)
John Nicholson and Sons
Steel Manufacturers
Mowbray Steel Works, Mowbray Street, Sheffield
 Trade card, c. 1890 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
Nicholson and Rhodes Limited
Iron and Steel Manufacturers
Princess Street, Sheffield
 Managing Director's Reports, 1980 - 1981, Annual Accounts and Reports, 1961 - 1968 (Sheffield Archives: X346)
Nitralloy Limited
Nitriding Licensors / Case Hardeners
Bank Street, Sheffield
 Copy Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1928, Annual Returns, 1936 - 1950 and other papers, 1928 - 1954 (Sheffield Archives:
X324)
 1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Samuel Osborn and Company (later Osborn Steels Limited)
Steel and tool manufacturers
Clyde Steelworks, Sheffield
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Letter books; minute books; cash books balance books and sheets; journals; ledgers; cost books; wages and salaries books;
inventories of plant and stock books; trade catalogues; scrapbooks; miscellaneous items c. 1852-1967; papers relating to Mushet steel
and Osborn's partnership with Titanic Steel and Iron Co., 1868-1888 (Sheffield Archives: Osborne and MD1193-1199)
 Price lists, 1887 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 423 VL and MP 118 L)
 Catalogue, 1935 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SST; and [20th cent] Sheffield Archives: MD8176)
 Directors reports and statement of accounts, 1956 - 1957 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1207 M and in Journals)
 The Osborn Group, 1970s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SST)
 Osborn News / The Hand and Heart magazine, 1920, 1953 - 1978 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S & SF)
 Steel is our Business, 1960s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ, local pamphlets, vol. 21 No 7 and vol. 24 no. 11 042S))
 Pioneers for a century 1952 - 1952: a history of the growth and achievement of Samuel Osborn & Co. Ltd., 1952 (Sheffield Local
Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Advertisement, [1858] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 119 M (1))
 Trade cards, 1889 - 1890 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
 Osborn: Quality for the World (Samuel Osborn and Company Ltd., 1972) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 38.4 SSTQ)
 Stainless steels for the petroleum industry: general relationship between British and American qualities (Samuel Osborn and Company
Ltd., 1957 (Sheffield Reference Library: 669.1 Q)
 Osborn's: a record of seventy-five years, 1852-1927 (Samuel Osborn and Company Ltd., 1927) (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
PAMP 472)
 War memoir, 1914-1919 Samuel Osborn and Company Ltd., c. 1920) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 940.467 SST)
 Osborn: steel is our business (Osborn Organisation, 1966) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 21 no. 7 (042 S))
 63 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: Photographs, booklets, legal papers, etc., 1900 - 1960 are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNSO)
http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnso&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
Osborn-Hadfields Steel Founders Limited
Steel Founders
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Vulcan Road, Sheffield
 Brochure, c. 1967 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672.2 SSTQ)
 The Story behind the Story 1970s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1843 S)
 Osborn Hadfields Steel Founders Ltd. 6 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Osborn – Mushet Tools Limited
Penistone Road, Sheffield
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8 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Outokumpu
Stainless Steel
Europa Link, Sheffield
 Sarkikoski, Tuomo, A Flash of knowledge: how an Outokumpu innovation became culture (Outokumpu Oyj, 1999) (Sheffield
Reference Library: 669.0282)
 Outokumpu Ideas (Sheffield Reference Library: Journals)
Graham Oxley Tool Steels Limited
London Works, Bridge Street, Sheffield
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3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Frank Parker and Company Limited
 Memorandum and articles of association, 1927 and 1972; annual reports and accounts, 1968 - 1970 (Sheffield Archives: TW/406-407)
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F. M. Parkin (Sheffield) Limited
St Thomas Steel Works, Aizlewood Road, Sheffield
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5 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
William Parkin and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Sylvester Street, Sheffield
 Ledgers, 1920 - 1968 (Sheffield Archives: LD2403)
George and James Oxley
Knife and steel manufacturers
Sheffield
 Letter 1844; apprenticeship indentures c 1788, 1812; Fire Assurance Policy 1857; price lists; note about type of steel used
(photocopies) (Sheffield Archives: PhC/510)
George Oxley and Sons Limited
Ironfounders and Engineers
Sheffield
 Managing Director's Reports, 1980-1981 (Sheffield Archives: X369)
Park Gate Iron and Steel Company Limited
Iron and Steel Manufacturers
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Park Gate, Rotherham
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Corporate and management records, financial, production and sales, promotional material, 1938 - 1940 (Sheffield Archives: X329)
Brochure, 1938 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SST)
Works of the Parkgate Iron and Steel Company Limited Rotherham, 1970s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3446 M)
Steel specification, 1964 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.142 SST)
Park Gate (S. D. Dickinson, 1964) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
F Parramore and Sons (1924) Limited
Iron founders
Caledonian Works, Smith Street, Chapeltown
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Daybooks; nominal ledgers; private ledger; cash books; miscellaneous papers; plans., 1908 - 1968 (Sheffield Archives: LD2118-2144)
Welcome home celebrations leaflet, 1946 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 2825 S)
Ephemera file (Sheffield Local Studies Library)
Catalogue of rainwater and soil goods, c. 1927 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SSTQ)
Henry Pasley and Sons
File, Hammer and Tool Manufacturers
Brocco Works, Edward Street, Sheffield
 Trade catalogue, etc, [c. 1910] (Sheffield Archives: X398)
Patent File and Tool Company Limited
File and Tool Manufacturers
Tooting [London]
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Certificate of Incorporation, 1906 (Sheffield Archives: X314)
Peace Brothers
Steel Manufacturers
Garden Street Works, Garden Street, Sheffield
 Samuel Peace’s executors and other papers (including papers regarding sale of stock and bankruptcy, c. 1819 - 1886 (Sheffield
Archives: MD6595)
 Peace, L. Ralph, The Peace families of Sheffield: a story of file makers and steel makers (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 929.2PEAC
SQ)
 1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
F G Pearson
Steel and Tool Manufacturers
Hope Works, Furnace Hill, Sheffield
Note: order books, 1890 - 1934 are available at the Hawley Collection Trust (Sheffield) (ref. PEA)
T W Pearson
Wyvern Steelworks, Matilda Lane, Sheffield
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1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
F Pickering
Admiral Steel Works, Sedgley Road, Sheffield
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
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6 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
J. A. Pindar Engineering Limited
Engineers
Petre Street, Sheffield
 Purchase ledger, 1973 - 1975 (Sheffield Archives: SY383)
Portass Machine Tools
Lathe and Machine tools
Buttermere Road, Sheffield
Note: Papers, correspondence concerning the Portass lathe 1949-c1955, wages book 1934-1936, fliers and trade magazines and
journals are available at the Hawley Collection Trust (Sheffield) (ref. POR) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2746-por&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011)
The Railway and General Engineering Company Limited
Nottingham
 Registers of members, shares and transfers, ledgers and other papers, c. 1900 - 1971 (Sheffield Archives: TW/428-461)
Resistalloy Limited
Woodside Works, Rutland Road, Sheffield
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3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Henry Rhodes Limited
Laminated Spring and Machine Knife Manufacturers
Brooklyn Works, Sheffield
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Nominal Ledger, 1974 - 1980 (Sheffield Archives: MD7051)
Henry Rhodes Machine Knives Ltd. 1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
John Rigby and Sons Limited
Wire Manufacturers
Low Moor, Bradford, West Yorkshire
 London Wharf Nominal Ledger, 1962 - 1971; Nominal ledger 1976 - 1977 (Sheffield Archives: X347)
John Rigby (Redscar) Limited
Redscar, [?Peebleshire]
 Nominal Ledger, 1974 - 1977 (Sheffield Archives: X359)
River Don Stampings Limited
Steel Stamping and Forming
Sheffield
 Directors' Meeting minutes and reports, 1972 - 1981 (with gaps), Finance Directors' Reports, 1980, etc. (Sheffield Archives: X355)
 River Don Stampings. 1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Ross and Catherall
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Forge Lane, Killamarsh, Sheffield
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3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Charles Ross Limited
Structural Steelwork Manufacturers
Heeley Bridge Engineering Works, London Road, Sheffield
 Cost books; sales ledgers; nominal ledgers, 1911 - 1969 (Sheffield Archives: LD2441)
Henry Rossell and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Wallace Works, Furnival Street (later at Waverley Works, Effingham Road), Sheffield
 Ledger, 1832 - 1853 (Sheffield Archives: X280)
Rotherham Forge and Rolling Mills Limited
Manufacturers of Steel Forgings, Bars, Rods and Sheets
Greasborough Road, Rotherham
 Directors minutes, 1966 - 1970; reports and balance sheets, 1937 - 1969 (Sheffield Archives: HAD/box 28)
Rotherham and Tinsley Steel Limited
 Reports and accounts, 1970 - 1972; seal book, 1972 - 1977 (Sheffield Archives: HAD)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Rothwell Engineering Limited
Metal Products
Aghabullogue, Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland
 Annual account and directors’ report, 1970 (Sheffield Archives: TW/465)
Rowland and Tucker Limited
Tyler Street, Sheffield
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1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
William Rowland
9 Meadow Street, Sheffield
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3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
John G Russell (Wishaw) Limited
 Articles of association, directors minutes, etc 1958 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: TW/466-469)
Sanderson Brothers and Company Limited
Steel and File Manufacturers, Converters, Refiners, etc.
Newhall Road, Darnall and Darnall Steelworks, Darnall Road and Attercliffe, Sheffield
 [Announcement] to the importers and consumers of steel, 1832 [relating to the dissolution of Naylor and Sanderson] (Sheffield Local
Studies Library: MP227 L)
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Sanderson Brothers [and] Newbould Limited
Manufacturers of steel saws, small tools, etc.
Attercliffe Steel Works, Newhall Road, Sheffield
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Annual reports, 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
‘The House of Saben, 1921 - 1932 and 1949 - 1960 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
Hints on Steel, 1940s (Sheffield Reference Library: 669.142)
Advertisements for the firm’s library, 1951 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 187 L, 188 L and 195 L)
Advertising leaflets, 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1540 M)
Sanderson’s flexible back magazine bandsaw blades, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 259 no. 13 (042
S))
 150 years of progress - Sandersons 1776 - 1926, T W Willis (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ (in House of Saben, vol. 2 no.
12)
 Memorial book of employees, 1877 (Sheffield Archives: MD8186)
 Sanderson Brothers and Newbould Ltd. 30 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: Cost book 1834, stock and prices book c1950-1960, letters and papers 1980s, house journals, etc are available at the Hawley
Collection Trust (Sheffield) (ref. SAN) http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2746-san&cid=0#0 (accessed January
2011)
Sanderson Kayser Limited
Steel and tool manufacturers
Attercliffe Steelworks, Newhall Road, Sheffield
 Annual report and accounts [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
 Deeds and associated documents, 1867 - 1994 (Sheffield Archives: X23)
 Special steels: a history of quality from AD1776 to ISO 9002 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3174 M)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
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‘The House of Saben, 1921 - 1932 and 1949 - 1960 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
'The Sanderson Kayser Magazine' 1961 - 1977 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
400 years of iron and steel, 1969 - 1971 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S and local pamphlets vol. 286 no. 13 (042 S))
Introducing Sanderson Kayser - handbook for visitors, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 259 no. 11 (042
S))
 A handbook for visitors to the works, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 259 no. 11 (042 S))
 Sanderson Kayser Ltd. 19 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: cost book 1834, stock and prices book c1950-1960, letters and papers 1980s, house journals, plans, leases, etc. are available at
the Hawley Collection Trust, Sheffield (ref. FH.236-247).
Sayer, Eyre and Roberts
 Partnership deed, [19th cent.] (Sheffield Archives: MD5232-5302)
F. Scott and Sons
Steel Manufacturer and Swedish Iron and Steel Merchant
Trojan Works, Lumley Street, Sheffield
 Minute book, 1911 - 1915 (Sheffield Archives: MD7958)
Seebohm and Dieckstahl Limited
Steel Refiners and Manufacturers
Dannemora Steelworks, Sheffield
 Acero herramientas [steel tools]: catalogo general, c. 1910 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC SEEB)
 Trade card, c. 1890 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
 Dannemora Steel Works, 1890 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3964 M)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Ambrose Shardlow and Company Limited
Engineers
Petre Street, Sheffield
 Shop stewards' committee minutes, 1937 - 1948 (Sheffield Archives: X53)
 Letters, newspapers, etc re the company’s history, [c. 1949 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 224.4 SQ)
Note: Wages books, engineers notebooks and other records, 1872 - 1953 are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum, Sheffield
(ref. MNAS) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnas&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
H Shaw and Son
Magnets and Ships Compass needle Manufacturers
Monmouth Street, Sheffield
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Minutes, ledgers, day books, etc (microfilm) 1846 - 1949 (Sheffield Archives: SY224 and HSM)
Magnets and Memories: a celebration of the 200 years of H Shaw (Magnets), 1783 – 1983 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
Price list [?19th - 20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC SHAW)
1 trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Sheepbridge Rolling Mills Limited
Iron Masters
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
 Memorandum and articles of association, etc., 1965 - 1975 (Sheffield Archives: MD7081)
Sheffield Alloy Steel Company Limited
Steel casting manufacturers
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Aetna Works, Savile Street East, Sheffield
 Correspondence, accounts, bank pass book, 1916 - 1918 (Sheffield Archives: SJC)
Sheffield Forge and Rolling Mills Company Limited
Steel tilting, forging, rolling and drawing
Millsands, Sheffield
 Directors’ minute book, 1954 - 1971 (Sheffield Archives: BUS1)
 Minutes, register of directors, shareholdings, transfer journal, private ledger, financial papers, c. 1926 - 1969 (Sheffield Archives:
Aurora I)
Note: Minutes, 1932 - 1970 are available at the Corus Northern Regional Records Centre (Middlesbrough) and a register of directors,
1969 - 1980 is available at the Tata Steel UK Limited Shotton Records Centre (Deeside)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B10633 (accessed January 2011)
Sheffield Forgemasters
Heavy forged and cast steel products
Brightside Lane, Sheffield
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Reports and accounts 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
Records of predecessor companies, 19th - 20th cent (Sheffield Archives: MD8121)
Technology in Steel, 1990 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SSTQ)
Johnson and Firth Brown plc - the formation of Sheffield Forgemasters, 1982 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee minutes and reports regarding exports to Iraq, 1991 (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: 382.64 SSTQ)
 Interview with Group Board Director of Sheffield Forgemasters, 2009 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 219 SQ)
 Progress through partnership [Video], 1995 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: VID 25)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Sheffield Forgemasters Group (Star, 1989) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1350 L)
 Interview with Geoff Marston, Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd., 2008 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1643 L)
 Softley, Roy, ‘Supergun or superpipe?: Sheffield engineer Roy Softley's experience of working on the Iraqi supergun’, (Arc, 2008)
(Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
 1985 - 1986 strike papers (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1379 - 1380 M)
 10 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Sheffield Rolling Mills Limited
 Correspondence, 1969 - 1975 (Sheffield Archives: BUS1)
James Shortland and Company Limited
Wire Manufacturers
Wishaw, Lanarkshire
 Articles of association, 1920, directors’ meeting minutes, 1970 - 1981, private ledger, 1906 - 1951, etc (Sheffield Archives: TW/479483)
Silent Machine and Engineering Company
Food Preparing Machinery
Albion Works, Savile Street, Sheffield
 Nominal ledger, 1944 - 1971 (Sheffield Archives: TW/501)
John Smith (Keithley) Limited
Crane Manufacturers
 Annual accounts and director’s reports, 1964 - 1970 (Sheffield Archives: TW/502)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Thomas Smith and Sons (Rodley) Limited
Cranes / Excavator Manufacturers
Rodley, Leeds (West Yorkshire)
 Register of members and share ledge, 1947 - 1978, directors’ meeting minuet books, 1918 - 1963, etc (Sheffield Archives: TW/503512)
Spear and Jackson Limited
Toolmakers
Aetna Works, Savile Street, Sheffield
 Articles of partnership 1824, 1868-1896 and papers re formation of limited company 1904-1905; partnership and private ledgers,
accounts of sale, wages, processes and cost books 1812-1905; letter books 1812-1816, 1852-1858; minutes of directors' meetings,
registers of members, shares, etc. 1905-1937; ledgers 1905-1946, printed reports 1937-1955; Russian agency letters 1913-1936;
records of visits abroad 1905-1934; records of subsidiary companies: E. & W. Lucas of Dronfield, Forge, Drabble & Sanderson,
Sheffield Alloy Steel Co. 1890-1922 (Sheffield Archives: SJC)
 Certificate of registration, leases 1923, etc (Sheffield Archives: MD7331)
 ‘Continual Progress since 1774’, 1948 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 202 no. 11 (042 S))
 Our Tools, [1950s] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1013 S)
 Souvenir brochure for new machine department, 1957 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 16 no. 7 (042 S))
 Brochure, [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SSTQ)
 Spear News, 1957 - 1971 (incomplete) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 s)
 Tools to Trust: a double century of tool making, 1960 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 The Mermaid, 1925 - 1933 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 s)
 Jones, Peter D'alroy, ‘The Story of the saw: published to mark the second centenary of the world's oldest sawmakers: Spear &
Jackson Limited, 1760-1960’ (Neame, 1961) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 621.93 S)
 Report and accounts, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
 Hand and engineering tools catalogue, Spear and Jackson (Tools) Ltd., 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC SPEA)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 8 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: Publicity Department papers , c. 1970-1978, papers relating to the manufacture of trowels and saws, letters, invoices and booklets,
1928-c1955 are available at the Hawley Collection Trust (Sheffield) (ref. SPE) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2746-spe&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
Spartan Steel Company Limited
Steel Manufacturer
Carlisle Street, Sheffield
 Analysis of high chrome alloy steels, [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 157 no. 13 (042 S)
 9 Trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Special Melted Products
Atlas House, Attercliffe Road, Sheffield
 4 Trade catalogues. (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Special Quality Alloys
 1 Trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Spencer Clark Metal Industries Limited
Warren Street and Penistone Road, Sheffield, also Greasbrough Street, Rotherham
 200 years of metal craftsmanship, 1977 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 s)
 Spencer Clark Metal Industries Ltd. 5 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Matthias Spencer and Sons Limited
Manufacturers of mining machinery, tools and equipment
Albion Steel Works, Arley Street, Sheffield
 Records including journal and ledger [1757-1788], includes records of other firms later incorporated in the business, principally the
steel firms of John Vessey and Sons, and Wardrobe and Smith [1930-1968] (Sheffield Archives: LD1925-1950)
 Records (Sheffield Archives: MD8020 and MD8148)
Walter Spencer and Company Limited
Steel, file, drill and cutter manufacturers
Crescent Steel Works, Warren Street, Sheffield
 Catalogues, c. 1954 (Sheffield Archives: MD7992)
Spencer Stanhope Spencer-Stanhope
Cannon Hall, Yorkshire
 Papers of the Spencer Stanhope iron working syndicate, mainly annual accounts and abstracts, 1695 - 1785 (Sheffield Archives: Sp
St)
Stainless Alloy Bolt and Nut Company
Nuts and Bolt Manufacturers
? Woodmet Works, Stannington, Sheffield
 Cash book, 1970 - 1976 (Sheffield Archives: SY383)
Stainless and Rustless Steel Company
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
 Register of members; including annual returns, 1922 - 1940; balance sheets, 1915 - 1953 (Sheffield Archives: HAD)
Stanton and Staveley Limited
Iron and Steel
Staveley, Derbyshire
 Chapman, S. D., Stanton and Staveley: a business history, 1971 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
 Stanton and Staveley News, 1962 - 1968 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.51 S)
The archives of Stanton and Staveley Limited are available at Derbyshire Record Office (ref. D3808)
http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/record_office/default.asp (accessed January 2011).
Starweld Engineering Company Limited
Steel Welders and Fabricators
Sheffield
 Accounts and directors' reports, 1947 - 1980 (Sheffield Archives: X406)
Staveley Iron and Chemical Company and Sheepbridge Company Limited
Derbyshire
 Staveley News, 1956 - 1962 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.51 S)
The archives of Staveley Iron and Chemical Company and Sheepbridge Company Limited are available at Derbyshire Record Office (ref.
D3808) http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/record_office/default.asp (accessed January 2011).
Staveley Iron Works
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Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library: Iron and Steel Companies
Iron Producers
Staveley, Derbyshire
 Journals and ledgers relating to furnaces of the South Yorkshire ironmasters’ syndicate, 1690 - 1766; furnace accounts, 1772 - 1806
and cost book, 1880 - 1901 (Sheffield Archives: SIR)
The archives of Staveley Iron Works are available at Derbyshire Record Office (ref. D3808)
http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/record_office/default.asp (accessed January 2011).
J Stead and Company
Hackle and Gill Pin Manufacturers
Manor Works, Sheffield / Hathersage (Derbyshire)
 Minutes, register of directors and directors' holdings and interests, transfer journal, balance sheets and accounts , 1906 - 1971
(Sheffield Archives: Aurora/82-137)
 Nominal ledger 1913 - 1924; cash book 1913 - 1931 (Sheffield Archives: X477)
 Trade catalogue [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC STEA)
 Steady progress for Half a Century: 1901 - 1951 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of J Stead and Co. (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: 338.4 SQ and local pamphlets vol. 11 no. 6 (042 S))
Note: Some letters and papers are available at available at the Hawley Collection Trust (Sheffield) (ref. STE) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2746-ste&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
Steel Peech and Tozer Limited
Manufacturers of steel locomotives, forgings, etc.
Phoenix Special Steel works, Ickles, Sheffield
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Social Services Gazette, 1932 - 1969 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
Social Services Gazette, 1939 (Sheffield Archives: SY457)
National Trades Technical Society minutes, 1950 - 1951 (Sheffield Archives: LD1798)
Things you will want to know: a handbook of information, 1954 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SST)
Steel, Peech & Tozer and United Strip & Bar Mills, 1949 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 340)
A Short description of the works of Steel, Peech and Tozer and the United Strip and Bar Mills 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: PAMP 83 and 287)
 The Templeborough Electric Melting Shop, 1965 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Introducing Steel, Peech and Tozer, [20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: and local pamphlets vol. 256 no. 1 (042 S))
 Steel Peach & Tozer 7 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: 1932-1980: minutes and registers, 1932 - 1980 are available at the Tata Steel UK Limited Shotton Records Centre (Deeside);
articles of association, mortgages and other records, 19th - 20th cent. are available at Rotherham Archives and Sheffield Local Studies
Library http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B18142 (accessed January 2011).
Steel (Sheffield) Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Edward Street, Sheffield
 Draft accounts, 1956 - 1975 (Sheffield Archives: TW/526)
Stocksbridge Engineering Steels see United Engineering Steels, Stocksbridge
Sybry Searls and Company Limited
Steel Castings Manufacturers
Cannon Steel Works, Carlisle Street, Sheffield
 Records, 1933 - 1935 (Sheffield Archives: Aurora/183-184)
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Stocksbridge Precision Strip
Stocksbridge Works, Sheffield
 1 Trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Swift Levick and Sons
Steel and Magnet Manufacturers
Clarence Steel Works, Leveson Street, Sheffield
 Records, ?20th cent (Sheffield Archives: MD8188)
 12 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Henry Taylor Limited
Manufacturers of tools, etc.
Acorn Works, Arundel Street, Sheffield
 Chart showing cutting edges of Henry Taylor’s celebrated carving tools, no date (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 116 VL)
 Workmen’s Carving Tools by Henry Taylor, no date (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 2734 s)
 Trade catalogues, c. 1981 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC TAYL)
Taylor Brothers and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Adelaide Works, Mowbray Street, Sheffield
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 Registers of directors & interests etc. 1905-1970; shares and members' register 1905-1919; share transfers 1955-1970; General
Meetings minutes 1949-1956; Board of Directors' minutes 1944-1954, 1968-1969; Directors' report 1967-1968; annual returns 19291970; press reports on Iran 1967 (Sheffield Archives: MD7378)
 Order book, c. 1867 - 1904 (Sheffield Archives: MD6219-6221)
 Partnership deed, 1872 (Sheffield Archives: MD6362)
 Advertisement, 1858 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 122 M)
Taylor Brothers (Sandiacre) Limited (latterly Thos. W. Ward (Railway Engineers) Limited)
Manufacturers and Distributors of Iron and Steel, etc.
Albion Works, Savile Street, Sheffield
 Memorandum and articles of association, 1971; private ledger, 1916 - 1975 (Sheffield Archives: TW/527-528)
Taylor, Yeoman and Saw
Spindle Manufacturers
Sheffield
 Partnership deeds, 1828 - 1871 (Sheffield Archives: MD6345)
Temple Mills (Steel) Limited
 Memorandum and articles of association, 1956; accounts, 1967, lease, 1962 (Sheffield Archives: TW/529-531)
R. B. Tennent Limited
Steel Cast Roll Manufacturers
Coatbridge, [Lanarkshire]
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 Director's Board reports, 1980 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: X367)
Tinsley Rolling Mills Company Limited
Steel rollers
Tinsley, Sheffield
 Board and Annual General Meeting minutes, 1874-1955; share records, 1897-1920; financial records, 1838-1928; technical notebook,
1902-1925; Centenary Brochure, 1946; Works plans, 1899-1956; photographs, 20th cent. (Sheffield Archives: LD2259-2278)
 Register of directors, [1940s] - 1972; annual general meetings, 1960 - 1970; reports and accounts, 1934 - 1942; valuation, etc. 1936 1978 (Sheffield Archives: HAD)
Tinsley Wire Industries Limited
Wire Manufacturers
Sheffield Road, Sheffield
 ‘Twill’ Bearbrand News and Views (company magazine), 1947 - 1950 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
 The First Twenty Five years: a short history, 1933 - 1958 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 215 no. 4 (042 S))
 The Tinsley Wire (magazine), 1951 - 1969 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
Titanic Steel and Iron Company Limited
Iron Founders and Casters
Coleford, Gloucestershire
 Letters, contracts, advertisements, etc. 1867 - 1888 (Sheffield Archives: MD1193-1194)
 Advertisement, 1870 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 506 M)
 Advertisement for R Mushet’s special steel, 1870 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 508 M)
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Titanium Metal and Alloys Limited
Sheffield
 Titanium - its production, properties and uses, [1960s] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.732 SSTQ)
Toledo Woodhead Springs Limited
Spring Manufacturers
Clifton Works, Neepsend Lane, Sheffield
 Accounts, 1943 - 1944 (Sheffield Archives: Aurora/182)
The Trent Iron Company Limited
Iron Ore Miners and Processors
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
 Papers for Board meetings, 1916 - 1918, copy letter books and correspondence, 1917 - 1920, employee rule book, 1920 (Sheffield
Archives: X316)
Joseph Trippett and Sons Limited
Manufacturer of Steel Castings
Coleridge Road, Attercliffe, Sheffield
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 1899 - 1941 (Sheffield Archives: BUS13)
 Trade card, c. 1890 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
George Tucker and Company
Non-ferrous Metal Merchants
Norfolk Street, Sheffield
 Home ledger, 1786 - 1794 (microfilm) (Sheffield Archives: A91)
Turton Brothers and Matthews Limited
Manufacturers of Coil Springs, Steel, Magnets, etc.
Wentworth Street, Sheffield
 Minute books 1919 - 1931, letter books 1908 - 1911 and 1919 - 1924 (Sheffield Archives: LD2473-2474)
 4 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
George Turton, Platts and Company Limited
Buffers, Steel and Spring Manufacturers
Meadow Hall Road, Wincobank, Sheffield
 Records (Sheffield Archives: Aurora II)
 Spring Works magazine, 1921 - 1923 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
 Prints and negatives of plans of items manufactured by the company, 1930s (Sheffield Archives: MD7181)
Thomas Turton and Sons Limited
File, Tool and Spring Manufacturers
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Sheaf and Spring Works, Maltravers Street and Cadman Street, Sheffield
 Articles of partnership, etc, 1860s (Sheffield Archives: WD/547-549)
 Director’s minutes, 1957 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: MD7789)
 See also within Stephenson Blake records (Sheffield Archives: MD8069)
Note: Diaries, catalogues, posters, etc., 1849 - 1944 are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNTT) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B16088 (accessed January 2011).
Joseph Tyzack and Son Limited
Manufacturers of saws, tools, etc.
Meersbrook Works, Sheffield
 Centenary of J Tyzack and Son Ltd., Meersbrook Works, 1837 - 1937 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 148 no. 4
(042 S))
Note: papers relating to overseas trade and the dispatch of catalogues abroad, 1920s are available at the Hawley Collection Trust
(Sheffield) (ref. TYZ) http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2746-tyz&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
W. A. Tyzack and Company / William Tyzack, Sons and Turner
Manufacturers of High Speed Steel, etc.
Stella Works, Hereford Street, Sheffield
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Reports and accounts, 1970s - 1990s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
Trade catalogue [?19th - 20th cent] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: TRC TYZA)
W. A. Tyzack. 2 Trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
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Note: Labels, adverts and price lists, 1906 - 1964 are available at Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNTS) http:
//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnts&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
William Tyzack and Sons
Steel Turners
Abbeydale Works, Sheffield
 Centenary Souvenir, 1812 - 1912 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Greetings card and illustration / description of Little London Tilt and Wheel, 1951 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1442 S)
Municipal Foundry and Engineering Company Limited
Iron Founders
Hough Lane, Wombwell, West Yorkshire
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1905 (Sheffield Archives: SY138)
Unbrako Steel Company Limited (Unsco)
 5 Trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Union Grinding Wheel,
Grinding Wheel
Alma Street, Sheffield
 Minute books; letter books; account books etc., 1823 - 1967 (Sheffield Archives: UGW)
United Engineering Steels
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Steel Manufacturers
Ceylon House, Westbourne Road, Sheffield
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Bloomcast bearing steel developments at UES Steels, 1990s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3204 M)
United Engineering Steels - investing in the group (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3202 M)
the hard facts behind an economic transformation, c. 1988 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 425)
Annual report, 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
United Engineering Steels News, 1993 - 1994 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SF)
United Engineering Steels, Stocksbridge Works
 20 Trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
United Sintering Limited
 Nominal ledger, 1973 - 1977 (Sheffield Archives: X357)
United Steel Company Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Ceylon House, Westbourne Road, Sheffield
 Chairman's, Directors’ and various committee minutes 1920-1968; Memoranda & Articles of Association of companies linked with
United Steel 1879-1969; committee minutes of associated companies 1908-1931; deeds of trust 1918-1963; reports and analyses for
company reorganisation 1957-1970; 'This Present Age' reproducing advertisements from Britain, Canada, Australia and South Africa
(Sheffield Archives: USC and SY655)
 Reports and accounts, 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
 This is United Steel - A General Review of the United Steel Companies Limited, 1961 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ and
Sheffield Reference Library: 338.47[6691] Q)
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 Video: Stone into Steel (the processes involved in making ironstone into steel), 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: LS 244)
 An account of the United Steel Company Ltd., Templeborough and Ickles Works of Steel, Peech and Tozer United Strip and Bar Mills
Branches, 1936 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 148 no. 4 (042 S))
 British Steel: how a powerful production group is meeting the worldwide demand for steel …, 1928 (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
338.4 SF photocopy)
 Elements of rolling practice (edited by D E Billington and J Lees), 1949 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669 SST)
 News from United Steel, 1957 - 1961 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SF)
 ‘Ploughshares into Swords’ the United Steel Company Ltd., 1939 - 1945 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 940.53183 SST)
 [Prestige adverts] Mosaics of steel, 1945 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
 [Prestige adverts] Seven Pillars of Progress, 1942-1943 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTF)
 [Prestige adverts] This Present Age, 1945 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
 [Prestige adverts] Trade Winds, 1948 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
 The Products of United Steel, Sheffield, 1963 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Railway Steel Topics, 1956 onwards (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 625.1 SQ)
 Review of Progress, 1956 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 424)
 Review of Progress, 1961 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 15 no. 2 (042 S))
 Review of Progress, 1966 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP1535M)
 Review of Progress, 1967 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 25 no. 32 (042 S))
 Scientific and technical visit to USSR, 1963 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 025.6 SSTQ)
 Standard methods of analysis of iron, steel and ferro alloys, 1945 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.101 SST)
 Steel Peech and Tozer and United Strip and bar Mills, 1952 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 298 no. 3 (042 S))
 Unicon: report of the annual conference of works councils, 1965-1967 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SF)
 Capital development in steel: a study of the United Steel Company ltd., P W S Andrews and Elizabeth Brunner, 1951-1952 (Sheffield
Local Studies Library: 338.4 S and Sheffield Reference Library: 338.47[6991])
 The United Steel Company, 1918 - 1968, R Peddie, 1969 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
 Business Policies in the Making: three steel companies compared, J S Boswell, 1983 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.476691)
 Unisteel newsletter, 1962 - 1968 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 SF)
 Workington Iron and Steel Branch, 1957 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
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Important Events Since 1914 - 1918 (Stocksbridge Library: 942.74)
Illustrated diary, 1938 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SST)
Project Spear, 1964 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1186 M)
Steelplant refractories: testing, research and development, 1944 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 666.7 SST)
Steel specifications, 1960s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.961 SST)
The New Sheffield, 1960s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 195)
Savings and Investment, 1950s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 198)
Standard Methods of Analysis of Iron, Steel and Associated Materials, 1951 and 1961 (Sheffield Reference Library: 669.951)
Roll Pass Design, 1969 (Sheffield Reference Library: 672.32)
Note: Minutes, correspondence, etc., 1918 - 1944 are available at the Corus Northern Regional Records Centre (Middlesbrough);
minutes, registers, ledgers, photographs, etc., 1918 - 1972 are available at the Tata Steel UK Limited Shotton Records Centre (Deeside);
Wellingborough foundry journals, account book, photographs, etc., 1935 - c. 1980 are available at Northamptonshire Record Office; and
deeds, financial records and other papers, 1705 - 1987 are available at the Cumbria Record Office
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B10821 (accessed January 2011).
Universal Rustless Steel Corporation Limited
Crysteel Work, Coleridge Road, Sheffield
 Promotional printed literature and press cuttings, 1930s (Sheffield Archives: MD7824)
Unsco see Unbrako
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John Vessey and Sons Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Brunswick Steel Works, Denby Street, Sheffield
 Ledgers, 1908 - 1958 (Sheffield Archives: LD1929-1935)
 Crucible cast steel, 20th cent (Sheffield Reference Library: 669.1 SST)
Vickers Sons and Company
Crucible Steel Manufacturers, etc.
River Don Works, Brightside Lane, Sheffield
 Trade catalogue, 1881 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 786.8848 SSTF)
Vickers Sons and Maxims Limited
Steel Manufacturers
River Don Works, Brightside Lane, Sheffield
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Directors minutes, balance sheets, correspondence etc., c. 1833 - 1927 (Sheffield Archives: MD8121)
Analysis book, 1903-1921 (Sheffield Archives: LD1878)
Technical drawings and architectural plans (new offices), c. 1905 - 1907 (Sheffield Archives: X396)
‘The Vickers Brothers: armaments and Enterprise, 1854 - 1914’, Clive Trebilcock, 1977 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4762345
S)
The History of Vickers Ltd., 20th cent. (Sheffield Local Studies Library: LS260)
Abstract of Vickers Sons and Maxim Ltd. catalogue, 1902 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 43 no. 13 (042 S))
Vickers Ltd., and Sheffield City Council Development Committee aerial transport [1919] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP2852 S)
Vickers Ltd., publications, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
Vickers Ltd., River Don Works, 1915 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ and local pamphlets vol. 11 no. 2 (042 S))
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 Vickers Ltd., Metallurgical Products [catalogue of boring cutters, steel tyres, axles, hacksaws, etc], 1923 (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: 672 SSTQ)
 Vickers Ltd., short history, 1920 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 ‘Vickers: a History’, J D Scott, 1962 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 S)
 Vickers Sons and Maxim Ltd., their works and manufactures, 1898 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 Vickers Ltd., Visit of HM King and Queen, 1905 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.45 SF)
 ‘Vickers Ltd., Camera in the Works: a miscellany of pictures from the Vickers Archives’, edited by Leslie Sansom, 1970 (Sheffield
Reference and Information Library: 779.9496 STQ)
 An historical survey of the manufacture of naval armour by Vickers Sons and company and their successors, 1888-1956, typescript,
1956 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 669.1 SSTQ)
 Vickers News, Vols. 1-2, 1919 - 1920 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
 Vickers News, new series, Vols. 1-8, 1924 - 1942 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S)
 Engineering diary and notebook containing specification for guns, etc., 1938 - 1948 (Sheffield Archives: MD7217)
 Plan of gunshop, 1900 (Sheffield Archives: MD3166)
 Rules for workmen, 1900 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 349)
Note: corporate records, accounts and schedules, printed papers, photographs, 1867 - 1973 are available at Cambridge University
Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives (ref. Vickers); Photographs, account book, etc., 1891 - 1956 are available at
Kelham Island Industrial Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNVK) http: //www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448mnvk&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011) and management records, 20th cent., are available at Brooklands Museum (Kent) (ref. VIC).
Vololo Corrugated Steel Cask Company Limited
Steel Cask / Dolly Tub Manufacturers
Norfolk Street, Sheffield
 Private journal, 1901 - 1956 (Sheffield Archives: UGW/23)
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Walker Steel Works Limited
Brake Drum Manufacturers
Mary Street, Sheffield
 Purchase and sales ledger, cash book and price lists 1925-1930 (Sheffield Archives: WD)
Thomas W. Ward Limited
Iron and Steel Manufacturers
Albion Works, Savile Street, Sheffield and Charlton, Tinsley and Templeborough Works
 Financial, accounting, management, employee and building records. Includes also subsidiary and member companies' records, 19 th 20th cent (Sheffield Archives: TW and X124)
 Correspondence, sales records, photographs, 1903 - 1983 (Sheffield Archives: BUS14)
 Correspondence, etc., c. 1922 - c. 1944 (Sheffield Archives: X189)
 Deeds, etc. 1904 - 1934 (Sheffield Archives: MD6431)
 Reports and accounts, 20th cent (Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)
 Inventory and valuation, 1984 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 2100 M)
 Exploring Ward's World (T W Ward, 1970s) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTF)
 Brochure, 1973 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1808 M)
 Documents regarding proposed takeover by RTZ, 1981 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 3614 M)
 Illustrated catalogue of machinery, engineers machine tools, power plant, etc., [c. 1910] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SST)
 A Great British iron and steel undertaking: Thos. W. Ward Limited, Sheffield (Empire Publishing, 1920s) (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: 338.4 SSTF)
 More leaves from our catalogue, 1924 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
 ‘The Olympic’, 1935 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets vol. 105 no. 3 (042 S))
 50 years of Progress, 1878 - 1928 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SF)
 Outline of progress, 1878 - 1953 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
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60 Years Service, 1878 - 1938 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Photographs of exhibitions, 1935 - 1967 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTF)
Photographs on grinders, 1938 - 1963 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 624.177 SSTF)
Photographs of Centenary Exhibition, 1978 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTF)
The Albion Machinery catalogue, 1931 and 1938 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 672 SST)
Battleships at Inverkeithing: a souvenir of a visit to Thos. W. Ward's Shipbreaking Yard, 1950 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP
278)
The Ward Group of companies: products and services, 1959 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
Wards at Work 1962: a pictorial survey of recent activities of the Ward Group of Companies, 1962 (Sheffield Local Studies Library:
338.4 SQ)
Round Britain with Wards, 1967 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SSTQ)
Talking about Wards, 1957 and 1971 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SST and SSTQ)
Onwards: a survey of some of the activities of the Ward group of companies (T W Ward, 1970s) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4
SF)
Wards World Centenary Year 1978 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Forward: employees' magazine, 1934 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 277)
Wards World (newsletter), 1981 - 1982 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 072.74 SF)
War Tribute, 1914 - 1919, (T. W. Ward, 1924) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 940.467 SST)
End of a chapter: a brief record of Thomas Ward Ltd … during the war years, 1939 - 1945 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 338.4 SQ)
Modern steel chimney design and construction by Ward-Evans, (T. W. Ward, 1974) (Sheffield Reference Library: 697.8 Q)
'Thos. W. Ward Ltd. Associated & Subsidiary Companies'. Details organisation and activities of organisation and subsidiary
companies, c. 1960 (Sheffield Archives: MD7502)
Ward and Payne
Manufacturers and refiners of steel, etc.
Ward’s Works, West Street, Sheffield
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 Illustrated tool catalogues, 1911 and 1960s (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 621.9 SSTQ and TRC WARD; Sheffield Archives:
MD7761/11)
W Ward (Sheffield) Limited
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1 Trade catalogue (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Wardrobe and Smith Limited
Steel Convertors and Manufacturers
Arley Steel works, Arley Street and Meadow Steel Works, Sheffield
 Converting ledger, 1854 - 1861; furnace production book, 1866 – 1954; sales ledgers, 1871 – 1886 and 1944 - 1957, day books,
1871 – 1905, etc., 1854 - 1959 (Sheffield Archives: LD1936 - 1944)
 Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1918 (Sheffield Archives: MD7058)
Wardsend Steel Company Limited
Rollers, Tilters, Forgers and Shear Steel Makers
Wardsend Steelworks, Sheffield
 Records, 1936 - 1961 (Sheffield Archives: Aurora/150-166)
Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company
Iron Manufacturers
Tudhoe Ironworks, Spennymoor, County Durham
 Catalogues, 1909 (Sheffield Archives: BUS14)
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E. J. Webster Limited
 Articles of association 1947, accounts and directors’ reports, 1957 - 1979; directors’ minutes 1947 - 1981, etc. (Sheffield Archives:
TW)
E. J. Webster (Northern) Limited
Albion Works, Sheffield
 Articles of association, 1968, annual accounts and directors’ reports, 1969-1979, directors meetings minutes 1970-1981, etc.
(Sheffield Archives: TW/579-584)
Welded Alloy and Stainless Products
Alloy and Stainless Steels
Penistone Road North, Sheffield
 Nominal ledger, 1968 - 1975, day and cash books, 1972 - 1975, etc., 1968-1975 (Sheffield Archives: SY383)
West Don Steel Company
Steel Manufacturer
West Don Street, Philadelphia, Sheffield
 Ledger and returns 1924-1955 (Sheffield Archives: MD7779)
Weston-Evans (Holdings) Limited
Holding Company
Sheffield?
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 Directors minutes, 1960 - 1979, ledgers and journals, 1957 - 1981 (Sheffield Archives: X342)
Wheatman and Smith
Manufacturers of saws, files, edge tools, etc.
Russell Works, Kelham Island, Sheffield
 Advertisement, 1858 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 120 M)
Whitham, Henry and Son Limited
Carbrook Street, Sheffield
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4 Trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Widnes Foundry and Engineering Company Limited
Iron founders and manufacturers of steel and steel tanks and vessels
Widnes, Lancashire
 Articles of association, 1936, annual accounts and directors’ 1959 - 1970, directors meetings minutes 1959 - 1969 (Sheffield
Archives: TW/585-590)
Wilds (Wildfire Limited)
Traders in files, steel, etc.
 Company minutes, annual profit and loss accounts, articles of incorporation, lists of shareholders, some liquidation papers, 1936 1953 (Sheffield Archives: MD3641)
G. L. Willan Limited
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Alloy and Stainless Steel Manufacturer
Sussex Street, Sheffield
 Accounts and balance sheets, 1952-1965 (Sheffield Archives: MARSH)
John Williams (Wishaw) Limited
Iron and Steel Manufacturer
Excelsior Iron and Steel works, Motherwell, Lanarkshire
 Articles of association, 1922, 1971; private ledgers 1989-1978, sales and purchase journals 1898 - 1911, nominal ledger 1900-1907,
etc (Sheffield Archives: TW/591-606)
John Willis and Company
Steel maker
Speciality Works, Attercliffe (formerly Parkside Works, Sussex Street, Sheffield)
 Trade card, c. 1890 (Sheffield Archives: SY214)
Thomas Wilson and Company
Eagle Foundry
Norwich Street, Sheffield
 List of patterns … spur and bevel gear, 1837 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 772 S)
Michael and Joseph Wing Limited
Steel Manufacturers
Jericho Works, Holme Lane, Sheffield
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 Accounts, sales ledgers, correspondence etc., 1916 - 1979 (Sheffield Archives: LD2417)
 3 trade catalogues (Sheffield World Metal Index)
Note: catalogues, share certificates and other papers, 1925 - 1945 are available at Kelham island Museum (Sheffield) (ref. MNNW)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1448-mnmw&cid=0#0 (accessed January 2011).
Wolverhampton and Birchley Rolling Mills Limited (formerly Wolverhampton Steel and Iron Company
Limited)
Steel Rollers
Osier Bed Works, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
 Accounts and balance sheets, 1929 - 1962, directors meeting minutes, 1949 - 1953, production records, etc (Sheffield Archives:
TW/607-620)
Woodhouse and Rixson (Holdings) plc
Holding Company
Sheffield
 Annual Reports and Accounts, 1976 - 1985 (Sheffield Archives: X361)
John Wood and Sons (Wisewood) Limited
Forgers, Filters, Rollers, etc
Wisewood Steelworks, Sheffield
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 Memorandum and articles of association, share records, accounts etc., 1874 - 1973 (Sheffield Archives: LD2417)
 Wisewood Works rules, 1906 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1759 M)
 Illustrated brochure, 1906 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1550 M)
Workington Iron and Steel Company
Iron Founders and Casters
Workington, Cumberland
 Engineering drawings, 1943 - 1962 (Sheffield Archives: LD2532)
 United Steel Company Ltd., Workington Iron and Steel Branch, [1956-1957] (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 21 and 338.4
SSTQ and Sheffield Reference Library: 338.47[6691] Q)
 Davy Brothers plans for mill engines at Workington Iron and Steel Mill, 20th cent (Sheffield Archives: LD2532)
 Workington acid Bessemer steel rails: Sandberg Regulated Sorbitic quality-oven treated, 1945 (Sheffield Reference Library: 669.1)
Worrall, Hallam and Company
Steel Wire Manufacturers
Needle Works, Queens Road, Sheffield
 Stocktaking returns, 1901 - 1937; private ledger, 1897 - 1934; yearly accounts (some only drafts) 1897 - 1939 (Sheffield Archives:
MD3624 and MD3642)
James M. Wragg and Company Limited
Steel Manufacturer
Sussex Street, Sheffield
 Ledgers; daybooks; cash books etc. 20th cent (Sheffield Archives: MD8185)
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Charles Yeomans
Tilter, forger and shear steel manufacturer
Owlerton
 Partnership deed, 1879 - 1884 (Sheffield Archives: MD6376)
Yorkshire Engine Company
Locomotive Engineers
Meadow Hall Works, Sheffield
 Order books, engine plans, photographs, 1866 - 1966; Wages books etc., 1888 - 1944; specification and weight books etc., 1910 1938 (Sheffield Archives: YEC and MD7005)
 Drawings of engines etc built by Yorkshire Engine Company, c. 1866 - 1928 (Sheffield Archives: MD7644 and MD7538)
 Standard industrial locomotives, no date (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 625.26 SQ)
 Vernon, Tony, ‘Yorkshire Engine Company: Sheffield's locomotive manufacturer’ (History Press, 2008) (Sheffield Local Studies
Library: 385.36 S and Sheffield Archives: VER/BUS)
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