Cammell Laird & Co Ltd, iron & steel production

Sectors:

  • Fabricated metal products manufacture Armour plate production industry
  • Basic metals production Iron, steel & related alloys production
  • Fabricated metal products manufacture Metal forging, pressing, stamping, rolling, slitting, etc
  • Transport equipment production Railway locomotive, rolling stock & components production & repair

Notes:

Traced origins to the Sheffield business of Charles Cammell and Henry and Thomas Johnson formed as Johnson, Cammell & Co in c1837. Incorporated 1864 as Charles Cammell & Co Ltd. Based at Cyclops Works and, later, Grimsthorpe Works, Sheffield. 1880s established by acquisition important iron and steel plant at Workington, Cumbria - Derwent Steel & Iron Works. Reconstructed 1898. Iron and steel producers making in particular rails and locomotive wheels for railways and later armour plate for warships. 1902-19 associated with Coventry Ordnance Works. 1903 merged with Laird Brothers Ltd, shipbuilders of Birkenhead, to form Cammell Laird & Co Ltd. 1920s started to build cars and carriages for London Underground and others, this business being merged into Metropolitan Cammell Carriage & Wagon Co Ltd in 1929. Steel interests merged into English Steel Corp Ltd in 1928 which was nationalised 1951. The latter reacquired with Vickers on denationalisation in 1954 and in 1960s renationalised into British Steel Corp

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