History of GKN. Volume 1, Innovation and enterprise, 1759-1918
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- Author(s) Jones, Edgar
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1987
- Pages 442pp; illus
- Publisher Macmillan
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly history being the first of two volumes. Deals with the business from its origins in South Wales in mid 18th century to the conclusion of the First World War. Deals at length with Nettlefolds and also the Patent Nut & Bolt Co, but mostly concerned with the Guest Keen business which it deals with in three sections, viz: 1] 'Iron in South Wales' - The Guests and foundations at Merthyr, 1759-1793; War and expansion at Dowlais, 1793-1815; Supremacy in iron, 1815-40; Railways and crisis at Dowlais, the 1840s; 2] 'Steel and coal in Wales, 1850-1914' - Transition at Dowlais, the 1850s and 1860s; Dowlais in the steel era, 1870-1900; South Wales. More steel and coal, 1900-14; 3] 'Into the twentieth century' - Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds, its formation and early years, 1900-14; GKN and the Great War, 1914-18