'Origins of Nettlefold & Chamberlain, 1823-80'; 'Nettlefolds Ltd and the screw industry, 1880-1902'; 'Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds, its formation and early years, 1900-14' in E Jones, A History of GKN. Volume 1, Innovation and Enterprise, 1759-1918
Details:
- Author(s) Jones, Edgar
- Publication type Chapters
- Year published 1987
- Pages pp135-63, 199-236, 361-78
- Publisher Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly narrative account of the business from its origins to its acquisition by Guest, Keen & Co in 1900. The sections within the chapters are: 'Beginnings of the business'; 'Growth and competition'; 'Birmingham Screw Co; Flotation of Nettlefolds Ltd'; 'Profits, discounts and customers'; 'Trade war. The British Screw Co'; 'Castle Works, Rogerstone'; 'Changes in management'; 'Conditions of employment'; 'Competition from overseas and protectionism'; 'Guest, Keen, Nettlefolds takes over Nettlefolds'