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Hughes, Bolckow and Co
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Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Co of 2 Exchange Place, Middlesbrough
1906 Incorporated as a limited company.
1914 Iron and steel merchants. Specialities: iron, steel and machinery merchants, dismantling, battleship breaking; manufacturers of battleship teak wood garden and indoor furniture. [1]
1916 Purchased the business as carried on by the Andrews-Hawksley Patent Tread and Engineering Co.[2]
By 1956 was part of Metal Industries group.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer 1916/05/19, p 431