Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 166,968 pages of information and 246,678 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Steel Barrel Co

From Graces Guide
January 1920.
January 1920.
February 1922.
1931. Welded Steel Columns for Submarine Oil Engines.
1949.

Steel Barrel Company of Phoenix Works, Uxbridge

c.1890 Started trading[1]

1919 March. Advert for steel barrels for measuring fuel [2]

Produced welded steel structures for Davey, Paxman and Co oil engines for 'S' class submarines, under the patents of C. H. Stevens, of the Steel Barrel Company. See illustration[3]

1932 Company incorporated to acquire the business of similar name

1936 It was one of the largest and complete organisations involved in the manufacture of steel plate products of all types of steel. Incorporated in a new company, Steel Barrel Scammells and Associated Engineers[4]

1941 Subsidiary company of Steel Barrel Scammells and Associated Engineers Ltd[5]

1965 The company closed; existing orders were dealth with by other companies in the group, namely Carrimore Six Wheelers, Anthony Hoists and Midland Tipper Services[6]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times 10 June 1936
  2. The Autocar 1919/03/29 p20
  3. [1] The Engineer, 2 Oct 1931, p.350
  4. The Times 10 June 1936
  5. The Times 16 October 1941
  6. Commercial Motor 11th June 1965