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Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd

Other Business Names:

  • Stewart, Andrew
  • LLoyd, Edward
  • Lloyd, Samuel
  • Stewart, A & J, Ltd
  • Stewart Brothers Ltd
  • Clydesdale Iron & Steel Co Ltd
  • A & J Stewart & Clydesdale Ltd
  • Menzies, James, & Co Ltd
  • Stewart, A J, & Menzies Ltd
  • Lloyd & Lloyd
  • Lloyds Ironstone Co Ltd
  • Hickman, Alfred, Ltd
  • Islip Iron Co Ltd
  • Corby Iron & Steel Works
  • British Steel Corp

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Bilston, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, West Midlands, England
  • Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands, England
  • Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Strathclyde, Scotland, Scotland
  • Corby, Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England
  • Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, Scotland

Sectors:

  • Extraction Coal extraction
  • Extraction Iron ore extraction
  • Basic metals production Iron, steel & related alloys production
  • Fabricated metal products manufacture Metal pipe & tube making

Notes:

Traced origins to Andrew Stewart who established a tube making business in Glasgow in 1862 and to Edward and Samuel Lloyd who as Lloyd & Lloyd established a tube works in Birmingham in 1859. The Stewart business moved to Coatbridge in 1867 and was incorporated as A & J Stewart Ltd in 1882. 1890 Stewarts merged with Stewart Brothers Ltd and Clydesdale Iron & Steel Co Ltd to form A & J Stewart & Clydesdale Ltd. 1898 acquired James Menzies & Co Ltd to form A J Stewart & Menzies Ltd. In 1903 the two leading British tube makers, the Stewart and Lloyd businesses, merged to form Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd. Acquired coal, iron ore and steel making assets including Alfred Hickman Ltd / Lloyds Ironstone Co Ltd in 1920 and Islip Iron Co Ltd in 1930. Built large Corby Iron & Steel Works on greenfield site in early 1930s. Nationalised as part of British Steel Corp 1967

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