History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes
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- Author(s) Hardie, David W F
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1950
- Pages 250pp; illus
- Publisher ICI Ltd, General Chemicals Division
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- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly account of the industry prepared by ICI Ltd with a focus on the development of products and processes within a framework of the evolving industrial and business structure. Covers period from early 19th century to 1914-18 with little coverage thereafter. Much on individual businesses most of which merged into the United Alkali Co Ltd which thereafter became part of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd [ICI Ltd]. Business covered in some detail, apart from UAC, are: Atlas Chemical Co Ltd; Aluminium Co Ltd; Brunner, Mond & Co Ltd; Castner, Kellner Alkali Co Ltd; William Gossage & Sons Ltd; Hall Brothers & Shaw; Neil Matheson & Co Ltd; Mort, Liddell & Co; James Muspratt & Sons Ltd; William Pilkington & Sons; Sullivan Works; Widnes Alkali Co Ltd