Workington Iron And Steel Company

Workington iron and steel co ltd this page summarises records created by this business the summary includes a brief description of the collection s usually including the covering dates of the collection the name of the archive where they are held and reference information to help you find the collection.
Workington iron and steel company. Workington iron steel co. Dec known to the local people as chapel bank had an engineering design office engineering workshops and a foundry that at one time contained six of the seven electric arc furnaces built in workington. Workington was the home of distington engineering company dec the engineering arm of british steel corporation bsc which specialised in the design of continuous casting equipment. 4 september 1936 full publication history doi.
Workington iron steel company s coke oven plant first published. Two blast furnaces were erected at oldside just north of the town. 1856 on 6 november the workington haematite iron co was established to manufacture pig iron from locally mined heamatite ore.