Crown Iron Works; being the history of L Sterne & Co Ltd, 1874-1949
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- Author(s) Beale, Samuel R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1951
- Pages 85pp; illus
- Publisher Glasgow University Press
- Place Published Glasgow
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- Name Centre for Business History in Scotland
- City Glasgow
- County Strathclyde
- Country Scotland
- Postcode G12 8RT
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Takes form of a memoir of a senior executive, later chairman. A chronological narrative. Has chapters: 'Louis Sterne'; 'Thomson, Stern & Co Ltd'; 'Refrigeration - the first phase'; 'The Crown Iron Works'; 'Refrigeration - the second phase'; 'Emery wheels'; 'Refrigeration - the third phase'; 'Marine developments at Hillingdon'. An appendix provides an analysis of sales, 1890-1947, by product - emery machines, emery wheels, sternette machines, springs, etc '